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From: kelly@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Kelly Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Scanning
Keywords: scanning
Message-ID: <57668@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 9 Sep 90 20:55:31 GMT
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I would also like some information on scanning. I have found it useful, but
only in limited ways. I have a specific application. A business that I do
consulting work for receives list of prospective clients in paper form that
is separated into columns. All of this information is in capital letters.
So far, all well and good, but the trick is to get the info to be useful.
If I scan it in with any popular scanning software (using an hp scanner),
I am unable to translate what I have scanned into a word processing program
such as wordperfect or microsoft word. The trick is that not all of the fields
that are received on the hard copy are necessary. The info is used to produce
form letters and form envelopes. Any one out there have a good solution to 
make this possible and without a trillion intermediate steps to make the 
data usable????
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