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How to convert scanned documents for use in open office

Asked by Russell Crowther

I want to scan documents so I can use Open Office to modify the documnets

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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024) said : 		#1

When you scan as text, it will save as pdf. See this page for importing pdfs into Open Office:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Pdf_Import_Extension

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Russell Crowther (russc82) said : 		#2

Hi Ian,
Thanks for your answer to my scan question, but this
only converts pdf files to odg files witch I can not use in Oo writer. I
would like to to be able to edit the file and add some extra lines etc.
Any suggestions?
          Russell Crowther

On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 01:25 +0000, Ian Scott wrote:
> Your question #157549 on simple-scan in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simple-scan/+question/157549
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Ian Scott proposed the following answer:
> When you scan as text, it will save as pdf. See this page for importing pdfs into Open Office:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Pdf_Import_Extension
>

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#3

Hi Russell

I have found a program called OCRFeeder (you can install it from Ubuntu Software Centre). It will take an an image or PDF file and do an OCR scan on it. You can then clean it up and export it to a .odt file.

Give it a try.

Tony

PS If this answers your question, please mark it as Solved

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