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Comment from Mark J on 2012-01-06

2012-01-06T09:15:06Z

@Pavan
Omnipage is an OCR program which converts images to text, so you would need to have the Omnipage program to be able to do that.

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Comment from Pavan kumar on 2012-01-06

2012-01-06T09:04:16Z

How can i convert omnipage image doc to word(editable text).

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Comment from Mark J on 2011-11-19

2011-11-19T22:08:04Z

@Sabir
It's basically the same answer for gif, jpg, png and tiff. OCR is the answer

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Comment from Sabir on 2011-11-18

2011-11-19T07:19:33Z

Mr. Leo
I want a gif file converter software that convert in word plz suggest me

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Comment from Mark J on 2011-11-07

2011-11-07T21:28:04Z

@Jaikumar
If ABBYY won't recognize it, it may be that the font is from a language you haven't yet selected in FineReader. You can try clicking on Tools then Language editor and make sure you have the language checked that you want to OCR. If this doesn't work it's possible that the resolution is too low to work.

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Comment from jaikumar on 2011-11-07

2011-11-07T12:52:31Z

i have tried converting tiff image file having text written with hand by abbyy
to .doc but it is not recognising the text showing, some symbols .doc files can plz help me with software that will help me to solve this problem

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Comment from jaikumar on 2011-11-07

2011-11-07T11:37:38Z

Hi, Please let me to know how to convert tiff image file as into the word.doc file. So that I can able to edit the word file. i have alson tried with abbyy but its is not recognising the tiff image font. Its very very ugrent for me leo. help me with your answers as soon as possible

Please reply me with the positive answer.

Thank you
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Comment from jaikumar on 2011-11-07

2011-11-07T09:43:41Z

Please reply me with the positive answer.

Thank you
jaikumar

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Comment from W Bruce on 2011-10-07

2011-10-07T07:33:32Z

The document is typed using MS Word 2007 then saved as aDoc then emailed as an attachment. I receive it clicking on the atachment, it says the attached file is not an MS Document Image file and has opened the OCR page. I have to request it being sent exactly the same however with the docx extention, then no problem it opens . Isd there a swith or something in the program that I have missed. I have no problem opening the same file on another computer using Vista. Problem is in Pffice 2010 and Windows 7. Any easy answers ease

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Comment from j.arosh on 2011-09-20

2011-09-20T11:58:18Z

i have the same problem. please help me anyone.

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Comment from sree on 2011-07-16

2011-07-16T16:21:34Z

i want .tif file to a word.doc without mistakes

Good luck with that. OCR is the only solution, and automated OCR is notoriously error-prone. You'd be better off just retyping the document.

16-Jul-2011

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Comment from Natalie on 2011-01-28

2011-01-29T00:42:51Z

My favorite option for free online OCR services is a beta software offered by Ricoh Innovations. You can access it online at: http://beta.rii.ricoh.com/betalabs/content/document-conversion

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Comment from Ken on 2011-01-25

2011-01-25T20:45:59Z

Hi Leo, I use an application called Open Office which
is a free version and uses OCR. As an alternative to
Microsoft Word. However images can get confused just as you say, and spoil the final result.

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Comment from Dave on 2011-01-25

2011-01-25T17:18:26Z

If you are an Acrobat Pro user the newest version X (10) has excellent OCR capabilities built in.

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Comment from Me on 2011-01-25

2011-01-25T17:02:24Z

If its short enough I wouldnt bother with the OCR. It would take more time to correct the errors than to type it up by hand.

Very true. Often our fascination with tech and expectation that it'll fix anything causes us to overlook more pragmatic solutions.

25-Jan-2011

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Comment from Bart on 2011-01-25

2011-01-25T15:26:26Z

Online free converter.. upload the file.. convert.. and have it sent back to you. Should work just fine.

http://www.fileminx.com/

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Comment from Mark Jacobs on 2011-01-23

2011-01-23T20:19:07Z

If you only need it once, you can use the professional version for 15 days for free. http://finereader.abbyy.com/trial/

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Comment from Mark Jacobs on 2011-01-23

2011-01-23T20:17:04Z

The best OCR program I've found is ABBYY Fine Reader. The home version costs $49 and you can click on the link that Leo posted. It comes free with many scanners.
If the image is at least 300 dpi and a common font you can expect pretty good accuracy. ABBYY does better with unusual fonts than other OCR programs but expect more mistakes than with normal serif and sans serif fonts.

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Comment from Entronix on 2011-01-10

2011-01-10T11:01:59Z

Converting a TIFF is very easy but u will get only 80-90% accuracy then you need to do manual correction for remaining 10-20% to get 100% accuracy.
If you need converter then you can contact me. (charges applicable)
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Comment from deepak chouhabn on 2010-12-29

2010-12-29T10:21:51Z

hello, I've a .tif format image, but i want to convert it into text format I've tried so many software but i m not able to convert the page so plz give me suggestion for that

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Comment from Sarguna Sebastin on 2010-12-19

2010-12-20T07:22:40Z

Hi, Mr. Leo,
Please let me to know how to convert tiff image file as into the word.doc file. So that I can able to edit the word file.

Regards,
Sebastin

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20-Dec-2010

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Comment from Aryan Patel on 2010-12-15

2010-12-16T03:05:52Z

Hallo lio !!!

just tell me how i can convert a tif file to word file...
i have a big problem in company for this purpose...
if this is possible than tell me which software convertor we can use ???/plz .. i hope u give a mail answer..

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Comment from uday on 2010-11-30

2010-12-01T06:20:48Z

Hi, Please let me to know how to convert tiff image file as into the word.doc file. So that I can able to edit the word file.

Please reply me with the positive answer.

Thank you,
UDAY

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Comment from K M Siva Somasundaraam on 2010-11-09

2010-11-09T08:26:11Z

Hi,
i got scanned tiff file i want to make it as editable document in word. i tried to convert by using abbyy fine reader but i can't is there any way to convert plz suggest

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Comment from Laurence Christenson on 2010-10-06

2010-10-06T17:58:38Z

Hi Leo,

In answer the the person who asked, "How can I convert a TIF file to a DOC file?" this is exactly the problem I faced. I scanned a 435 page typed document into my computer, ending up with 435 TIF files. My attempts to convert them to an editable document were as frustrating as you describned in your answer. UNTIL...after about three days of Googling, I came across www.convertfiles.com I followed their prompts, uploaded my TIF files by Chapter (15 chapters) and presto I had a highly accurate WORD document that I could edit and work on. Better than any OCR program, of which I had tried at least five. Larry Christenson

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Comment from rajendraprasad on 2010-10-06

2010-10-06T15:14:57Z

i would like to know about the software which converts tiff file to word document then we should be able to make changes in word document

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Comment from Ankit on 2010-10-01

2010-10-02T00:54:01Z

Hi, thanks for all the information. now it is easy to convert any image to editable and searchable doc, pdf, html files using ocr software. however, good quality ocr software are not available for download. The only ocr software I was able to freely download and try was Image to OCR Converter available at http://products.softsolutionslimited.com/img2ocr/index.htm It does a fairly good job of ocr processing.

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Comment from sathya on 2010-09-30

2010-09-30T17:13:31Z

"How do I convert a French Script MT font.tif" file to a Word ".doc" file or a txt file?"

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Comment from krishana on 2010-09-27

2010-09-27T15:07:35Z

hi..

i want read french script mt text from tiff image..

help me//
if u have this type software knowledge send me details

thanks

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Comment from Sunil Chauhan on 2010-08-31

2010-08-31T08:27:04Z

"How do I convert a French Script MT font.tif" file to a Word ".doc" file or a txt file?":

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Comment from Natarajan on 2010-07-24

2010-07-24T17:34:36Z

The author must be a very good teacher with a passion to teach! Wonderful explanation.

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Comment from vijay on 2010-07-15

2010-07-16T02:47:06Z

Hi. the article was good, but i ve another problem. i want to convert a jpeg scanned file to a doc/docx format. is that possible? can u do it?

Same answer. JPG, TIFF, whatever image format you choose.

16-Jul-2010

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Comment from Ankit on 2010-05-12

2010-05-13T02:28:10Z

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Comment from Rick on 2010-05-05

2010-05-05T14:25:44Z

I was going to submit a long post to try and help explain why this
simple request is actually quite a complex problem, but let me be
brief instead ;)

There is no way to simply 'convert' an image (tif) into a text based
file (ie doc or txt). The formats are not compatible.

Sorry it's that simple.

You can, however, make a new document and put the picture into it
if you don't need editable text, the other option is that you have
to re-type it with (or without) the 'help' of OCR.

If it's short I would suggest you re-type it yourself, if it's long...

Yes can use an OCR program but you will have a lot of work to do
correcting the errors that the OCR program will make. If you are a
business it may be best to get a proper typist to re-type it for you.

I work in the printing business and I have had to do this and a big
(120 page) document can take 40-60 hours of work after OCR-ing it.
A properyly skilled typest can be faster but then you will
have to re-format as well so it will still take a lot of time.

It is, simply, a very time consuming process as you are creating a
whole new document :(

PS if it some kind of legal document I would suggest that you need
to use a program that will let you insert the tif image into it as
re-creating it can cause serious legal problems if any errors are
caused when it's re-typed.

Yes this is the short post :)

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Comment from Jaleel on 2010-04-28

2010-04-29T05:26:45Z

Hi,

I have a tif file in Tahoma format, performing OCR gives junks only, how can i change it to doc.

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Comment from Soma Das on 2010-04-13

2010-04-14T06:02:46Z

I have .tif docs and i want to convert it to .txt docs. How can i do that? I have tried using varios OCR tools but i m not getting any satisfactory results. none of the text is matching from the .tif file to .txt file. plz help me out.

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Comment from rusticraj on 2010-04-13

2010-04-14T04:50:28Z

hi
i have a tif file please tell me [links removed] how can i convert it in notpad ??

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Comment from amit on 2010-03-11

2010-03-11T09:11:49Z

i have 1 file in TIF format and like to convert in txt file format

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Comment from rishi on 2010-02-18

2010-02-18T16:32:23Z

i want to convert tiff image to notpad?
can any one help me

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Comment from 313624 on 2010-01-30

2010-01-31T05:43:15Z

Is there will be any difference between the text converted from the image using a OCR technology and normal typed text except for the errors in the text converted using ocr?

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Comment from Ankit Nagpal on 2010-01-17

2010-01-18T00:41:28Z

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Comment from Na nach nachma nachman meuman on 2009-12-01

2009-12-02T02:43:45Z

Got it! Right click the file and click OPEN WITH and select MICROSOFT OFFICE DOCUMENT IMAGING. Then press the logo with the little arrow and W that exports to Word. Worked great!

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Comment from jilmalika on 2009-09-07

2009-09-07T10:23:12Z

I HAVE .TIF IMAGE..I WANT TO CONVERT THIS .TIF INTO NOTPAD .TXT OR WORD .DOC FILE

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Comment from logu on 2009-08-19

2009-08-20T02:42:04Z

I have a .tif file, i want to convert it into notepad .txt extension? How can i do it? Please let me know

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Comment from joe on 2009-07-23

2009-07-23T12:47:12Z

i read ur article, its really interesting. i need tif to word convertor. can u provide me the link or else where can i get this software?

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Comment from raj on 2009-07-10

2009-07-10T16:27:16Z

some problem in converting the tif image file into word file & then getting the HTML taging .
Is there any free software for that purpose .
please send me the proper solution for that file . its and urgent requirment.

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Comment from Nathaira on 2009-07-09

2009-07-10T00:05:49Z

Would you be kind enough to send me a few links to download OCR Freeware? Please and thanks.

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Comment from sathish on 2009-06-23

2009-06-24T05:55:48Z

sir i want to convert the tif file in to note pad ...how i have to do sir

Same as the article: TIF is a picture, Notepad takes text. You need to use OCR.

- Leo
24-Jun-2009

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Comment from S.Subramanian on 2009-05-29

2009-05-30T04:40:52Z

Hi sir,

please tell me how to compare tif files and notepad files (or) word document files.

Thank you

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Comment from shafi on 2009-04-26

2009-04-26T13:23:49Z

I want to convert the .tiff image to a editable word document

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Comment from goutam on 2009-04-11

2009-04-11T11:49:46Z

Sir,

I am scaning some text in *.tif file, How can i convert *.tif file word file with out contants changeing

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Comment from karthikeyan.v on 2009-04-11

2009-04-11T09:42:33Z

I have a .tif file, i want to convert it into notepad .txt extension? How can i do it? Please let me know

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Comment from Prashanth on 2009-03-19

2009-03-19T15:19:30Z

I have a .tif file, i want to convert it into notepad .txt extension? How can i do it? Please let me know.

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Comment from athar on 2009-03-11

2009-03-12T05:27:19Z

i have to convert pdf to word or tif to word plz help me

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Comment from Vikas Aherkar on 2008-12-28

2008-12-29T04:08:53Z

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Comment from John Staack on 2008-11-11

2008-11-11T16:41:56Z

I have a tif file of a blue print. How can I select a small portion of it and inlarge that portion?

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Comment from mark on 2008-07-25

2008-07-25T17:42:34Z

that bit of information was useless. First I did not convert the file to tiff. I have the tiff file already created and wanted to know how to convert it to word. Saying that I have to start at OCR does me no good. Tell me how do i find OVR and give me the steps to convert it using OCR. you just dont leave someone with more questions not even answering the original question

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Comment from Rina on 2008-05-03

2008-05-03T15:17:36Z

Do let me know whether there is and free trail software through which i can convert tif files into microsoft waord without changing itts contents & formatting.

Plz help me out

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Comment from Kanagaraj on 2007-06-08

2007-06-09T06:07:46Z

Sir,

I am scaning some text in *.tif file, How can i convert *.tif file word file with out contants changeing

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