Re: [libreoffice-users] Save and Edit Text document

And if you have an Iphone, Google Lens is built into the Google App, as far
as I can tell. you want to find the 'text' mode.

On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 7:40 PM Michael H <cmahte@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you have a paper document you want to turn into text, and your scanner
> doesn't give you text output as an option... you can download Google Lens
> and point your phone at the document and copy each page that way.
>
> But the copied text is in your phone, so you'll have to email it to a
> desktop or use another editor like google docs or calibra office to paste
> into, then open that with libreoffice.  But saving files as PDF isn't
> good.  PDF is a final output, used to make it hard for other people to edit
> the file.  That's the whole point of PDF, and why it's used so commonly for
> finished work. use ODT format for libreoffice... you'll save yourself a lot
> of headache. but when you send it, you do need to output it to another
> form, PDF is best, but you can use .doc or .docx .  but MS formats aren't
> intended to be the working format for libreoffice, but a way to exchange
> information to non-informed users.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 7:33 PM Mike Flannigan <mflan@mflan.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/29/23 20:12, Kenneth Groninga wrote:
> > > When I scan a document how can I save if as a text rather tban an image?
> >
> > By using OCR to turn it into text.  Often the
> > OCR is built-in to the scanning software.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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