To preserve electronic copies of the original "paper" documents, they are scanned. Sometimes duplicates obtained in this way are recognized using OCR applications combined with scanning programs, and sometimes they are saved in the form of a picture. Often, after scanning, some changes are made to the original document that need to be displayed in the electronic copy. There are several ways to edit the "scan".
Instructions
Step 1
If scanning was carried out in the OCR mode, then the contents of the received document can be changed even before it is saved - most programs designed for scanning and OCR have built-in text editors. For example, in the FineReader program, which is popular among Russian-speaking users of scanners, each page of a scanned and converted into text format document opens in a separate window with an editing menu, the functionality of which is similar to that of a regular text editor. If the scanned and recognized text was saved to a file, then you can change it with a standard text editor. Use for this, for example, Microsoft Word - this word processor is able to read most of the formats used to save text by OCR programs.
Step 2
If the scanned document was saved in image format, then use a graphics editor to edit it. In some cases, the standard Paint application installed by default with the Windows operating system will suffice. Open the file containing the scanned text image in it, select the area of the image that you want to replace, and fill it with a color that matches the background of the document. Then adjust the size, color and font to match the text and print a new patch over the filled area. However, in most cases, replacing text requires more careful work with the image - copying background areas and placing copies over the text in several layers, deformation of the typed text in accordance with the state of the original document, copying and pasting individual letters and words of the text, etc. Therefore, a more advanced graphic editor, for example, Adobe Photoshop, is much more suitable for this work.
Step 3
There is one more way to replace a fragment of the original text in a scanned document saved as an image. It can be used if it is possible to scan a new fragment with edited text. The required text can be printed on the same (or the same) paper as the original document, so the appearance of the original and corrected fragments will be more the same than it can be achieved in a graphics editor. The scanned part of the text then needs to be superimposed on the edited document using any graphics editor - this operation is provided in almost all applications of this kind.
