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thebigchill | 09:11 Wed 19th Mar 2008 | Computers
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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.
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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.
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
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.

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