Comment from Robert Sorem on 2008-08-01

2008-08-01T18:53:24Z

I am interested in David's comment on3/23/07. I want to scan an Excel document with vert. and horiz. data that is calculated by formulae in the document. Will the scanned in document include the fomulae?

]]>

A comment on: How do I scan a document into Excel?

Tech Questions? Get Answers! - Ask Leo! ... by Leo Notenboom
Leo's Answers Newsletter - Ask Leo! in your inbox every week.

Comment from David on 2007-03-23

2007-03-24T05:38:46Z

ABBYY Finereader Professional Edition (I have used v8) makes a good job of scanning and converting columnar data automatically into Excel format where the rows and columns are well defined (ie with horizontal/vertical lines in the original document). If they are not well defined the software enables you to put in "separators" yourself - something that can be done quite quickly. You can also load .pdf documents into it, OCR them and also output to Excel format. However, regardless of the source, once loaded in Excel all numbers are treated as text and use of one of Excel's text to number features is necessary to convert the numerical information into numbers.

Hope this helps

]]>

A comment on: How do I scan a document into Excel?

Tech Questions? Get Answers! - Ask Leo! ... by Leo Notenboom
Leo's Answers Newsletter - Ask Leo! in your inbox every week.

Comments for How do I scan a document into Excel?

Comment from Robert Sorem on 2008-08-01

Comment from David on 2007-03-23