Help!! Jpeg to Word Conversion (1 Viewer)

[Lord Damian]

i know this is likely the wrong forum, so apologies in advance Pete if you have to move this thread.

Wondering if anyone out there knows how to convert a jpeg (or a pdf) file to a Word file. I realize some re-formatting of the finished document would likely be in order but something's better than nothing!

thanks folks.

 

[schmegeggin]

i know this is likely the wrong forum, so apologies in advance Pete if you have to move this thread.

Wondering if anyone out there knows how to convert a jpeg (or a pdf) file to a Word file. I realize some re-formatting of the finished document would likely be in order but something's better than nothing!

thanks folks.

if you have the latest version of adobe reader you can select the text, copy it and then paste to word

not too sure about the jpeg option though, actually did a quick google on it try this page

 

[nofriendo]

i know this is likely the wrong forum, so apologies in advance Pete if you have to move this thread.

Wondering if anyone out there knows how to convert a jpeg (or a pdf) file to a Word file. I realize some re-formatting of the finished document would likely be in order but something's better than nothing!

thanks folks.

simple way is open the jpeg, right-click and select copy then open word and paste will give you the jpeg contained in a word doc

 

[Anthony]

if it's a jpg then forget about it and start typing.
If it's a pdf there may be some hope.

 

[Lord Damian]

ooops - shoulda mentioned that the reason i need this is to actually copy text from the jpeg or pdf to Word, and then be able to modify the text in Word...do not want to copy and paste an image...

anyhow, tried Adobe version 7 and it only allowed copying/pasting of images, so i tried to uninstall and now i have no Adobe so (SIGH)...

"TECH SUPPPPPPPORT!!!!"

 

[Theseus Mock]

if the pdf has been generated from some sort of word processing program, you can grab the text fairly easily. if it's from a jpeg, you're fucked.

 

[Anthony]

damo, email me the document and I'll send you back the text in an email.
But be quick or be dead.

 

[Lord Damian]

if it's a jpg then forget about it and start typing.
If it's a pdf there may be some hope.

well i can turn a jpeg into a pdf so no worries there. i think we (yeah, it's for work) need the pro adobe suite thingy so i'll have to requisition a license from the Systems Veep.
i just wanna be able to scan text-heavy documents, save the as pdf's and then somehow convert or copy the text to a Word doc. probably sounds hardr than it is...

 

[Lord Damian]

damo, email me the document and I'll send you back the text in an email.
But be quick or be dead.

gahhh - which email?

fuck it i'll try them all....

 

[Anthony]

ahhh you need one of those text reader programmes... can't remember what they are called. They are a bit dodgy anyway. Quicker to find someone who can actually type because you end up checking it and correcting it's mistakes.

What are they called again?

 

[Lord Damian]

if the pdf has been generated from some sort of word processing program, you can grab the text fairly easily. if it's from a jpeg, you're fucked.

a lot of the pdf's i'll wanna cut and paste from used to be Word documents...if that makes sense.

 

[Lord Damian]

ahhh you need one of those text reader programmes... can't remember what they are called. They are a bit dodgy anyway. Quicker to find someone who can actually type because you end up checking it and correcting it's mistakes.

What are they called again?

well yeah the woman in our group who needs this the most was prepared for some formatting issues.

 

[Anthony]

you're confusing me, you want to get text out of scans right?

 

[Theseus Mock]

assuming you want to scan documents in with some OCR software & not as images you should be alright.

 

[Lord Damian]

you're confusing me, you want to get text out of scans right?

yeah, but not as an image - i need to grab it from a scan, paste it into Word and then be able to like, you know, add/delete text in there.

 

[Lord Damian]

assuming you want to scan documents in with some OCR software & not as images you should be alright.

OCR? me no techie, me no speakie da lingua.

 

[snap-apple]

OCR? me no techie, me no speakie da lingua.

OCR is optical charactar recognition - basically most scanners will come with software that can convert a scanned document from an image into a text file. you've already got the scanned document (image) so now you just need to convert it.

 

[Dude no.7]

hate to be a bummer but jpeg to word conversion is not possible.... a jpeg is a flat image without layers so you can't extract text like you might from a psd (photoshop layered image) .....
curious about these text recognition devices.... they sound funky (in a nerdy sort of way)

 

[Lord Damian]

thanks for the input everyone, the issue is now in the hands of our systems department. if they want to make our lives easier they'll figure it out.