Have you taken the trouble to scan a paper document and in order to use it it is necessary that you make some modifications? In the first instance you have to know that this is completely possible, without losing sight of the fact that we also have a guide thanks to which you can carry out all the changes you want, without having great knowledge about it.
This is possible thanks to the use of the OCR technology, emerged not long ago, and that has been developed especially for purposes such as these, so that we can take advantage of it both in programs and in specialized websites that are available on the web.
Beyond that, taking into account that we do not know if all our readers have Internet access, we have decided that the best option we can recommend is to use one freeware type application. And if we add to that that it has been created by Microsoft, we have no doubt that OneNote It is one of the best alternatives in this type of case.
Thanks to this application, you can edit a PDF document quickly and easily without having to be a professional. But we are not referring only to editing your text, but also the images that have been uploaded to it.
How to edit a scanned document step by step
As we have mentioned before, the program used for this tutorial is Microsoft OneNote, so we are going to show you all the details regarding what to do when you use it, without losing sight of the fact that it is free and very useful. In any case, if you do not feel comfortable with it, you always have the possibility of looking for another among the many that are available:
- In the first instance, download OneNote from the official website from this link
- After that, install the application on your computer, and when the process is finished, run it
- Select the option “New page”, among those that are available
- Go to the “Insert” tab, then to “Image” and finally to “Insert image”, in order to select the document you want to edit
- Once you have opened the document, click on “Insert” to begin the modification process
- Once the document is open on the screen, click with the right mouse button to select “Copy text from the image” and thus transfer it to a Word or any other text editor you want to use
- Once the project has been created in the text document editor, click on it with the right button and check “Keep source format” or its equivalent option. This will allow you to copy the text and images from the scanned document into this Word file without them falling apart
- Once the previous step is finished, you will then be able to edit the content of the scanned document
