Scanning into Excel
 

Recently, my hard drive died and I lost a lot of files. Is it possible
to scan a printed Excel file into Excel? (I know...I should have backed
it up!)

thanks in advance
john g

Scanning into Excel
 

hi
hard to say. some older scanners only scanned documents as pictures making
them impossible inport as a xl file and to edit
some newer scanners come with OCR software (optical character recognition)
making it possible to scan as text. a text file can be opened in xl as a text
file.
check your scanner's documentation for OCR software.
if you don't have OCR software, check this out....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=OCR+software

as a footnote, it's real hard to get a good 100% scan even from good OCR
software so expect some editing.
regards
FSt1


"roryfan" wrote:

Recently, my hard drive died and I lost a lot of files. Is it possible
to scan a printed Excel file into Excel? (I know...I should have backed
it up!)

thanks in advance
john g

Scanning into Excel
 

hi
as an afterthought, you might also consider checking out one of the
commercial document services like kinko's or other. just another option.
depends i guess on your degree of desperation.

regards
FSt1

"FSt1" wrote:

hi
hard to say. some older scanners only scanned documents as pictures making
them impossible inport as a xl file and to edit
some newer scanners come with OCR software (optical character recognition)
making it possible to scan as text. a text file can be opened in xl as a text
file.
check your scanner's documentation for OCR software.
if you don't have OCR software, check this out....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=OCR+software

as a footnote, it's real hard to get a good 100% scan even from good OCR
software so expect some editing.
regards
FSt1


"roryfan" wrote:

Recently, my hard drive died and I lost a lot of files. Is it possible
to scan a printed Excel file into Excel? (I know...I should have backed
it up!)

thanks in advance
john g