I am creating a mailing list in Excel by typing in the data. To save time, is
it possible to scan my hard-copy and import the data into Excel? The hard
copies come in various formats.

Yes it is possible if you have a good OCR reader that can transfer the
scanned image to text


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Julie" wrote:

I am creating a mailing list in Excel by typing in the data. To save time, is
it possible to scan my hard-copy and import the data into Excel? The hard
copies come in various formats.

This is something I have been trying to do, also. I can get the scanned data
converted through the OCR software into EXCEL, but it is then necessary to
cut and paste each item of each name, address and phone # to one line to
create a database record with info divided into fields. This takes more time
than just typing the original info into a contact record. Is there a way to
direct each line of the original record to a specific cell in EXCEL
automatically, and if so, HOW?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Yes it is possible if you have a good OCR reader that can transfer the
scanned image to text


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Julie" wrote:

I am creating a mailing list in Excel by typing in the data. To save time, is
it possible to scan my hard-copy and import the data into Excel? The hard
copies come in various formats.

I would try scanning to a *.txt file then open the *.txt file in Excel and use
the Text Import Wizard

Or maybe you can just DataText to Columns on the already imported data?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:48:01 -0700, brdtim
wrote:

This is something I have been trying to do, also. I can get the scanned data
converted through the OCR software into EXCEL, but it is then necessary to
cut and paste each item of each name, address and phone # to one line to
create a database record with info divided into fields. This takes more time
than just typing the original info into a contact record. Is there a way to
direct each line of the original record to a specific cell in EXCEL
automatically, and if so, HOW?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Yes it is possible if you have a good OCR reader that can transfer the
scanned image to text


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Julie" wrote:

I am creating a mailing list in Excel by typing in the data. To save time, is
it possible to scan my hard-copy and import the data into Excel? The hard
copies come in various formats.

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succes.


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

I would try scanning to a *.txt file then open the *.txt file in Excel and use
the Text Import Wizard

Or maybe you can just DataText to Columns on the already imported data?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:48:01 -0700, brdtim
wrote:

This is something I have been trying to do, also. I can get the scanned data
converted through the OCR software into EXCEL, but it is then necessary to
cut and paste each item of each name, address and phone # to one line to
create a database record with info divided into fields. This takes more time
than just typing the original info into a contact record. Is there a way to
direct each line of the original record to a specific cell in EXCEL
automatically, and if so, HOW?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Yes it is possible if you have a good OCR reader that can transfer the
scanned image to text


Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Julie" wrote:

I am creating a mailing list in Excel by typing in the data. To save time, is
it possible to scan my hard-copy and import the data into Excel? The hard
copies come in various formats.