Scanning

[thebigchill]

Is it possible to apply a spreadsheet like grid to a document i've scanned into a computer? I'm sending it to a customer and i'd like him to be able to enter comments on the various lines on it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[wildwood]

You can add lines to a word document in Word. With a scanned document you will first have to run the scan through an optical character recognition program to get the lines between the lines of text.

[ACtheTROLL]

if you have word (and depending on which version - excel)
use the scan image as a background

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/help/HA01219 1711033.aspx

it will be fiddly ... but should work

if you can't place the squares .... use individual text boxes instead (set them to no background fill) - even more fiddly

another option would be to use OCR software (often a scanner comes with it included on the CD) to create a form

[beso]

A program called Able2Extract Pro will do a complete conversion of the scan including OCR and produce an Excel or Word document.

It costs $US120 but it is very good. It is worth it if you need to do this kind of thing regularly.