[X4U] Scan printed Excel files

[Neil Laubenthal]

On Apr 13, 2012, at 2:42 PM,4/13, Paul Moortgat wrote:
> A friend has overwritten some Excel files but has printed versions.  Is it possible to scan these and make normal Excel files from it?
> If so, which is the best software to do?
> 
> Paul Moortgat
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ABBY FineReader includes a "Scan to Excel" option; but I've never actually used it. I would imagine that it just OCRs the contents of the various cells and puts them into the corresponding cell…your friend will lose all the formulas, etc but I would imagine it works.

FineReader is like 100 bucks I think; but if it's just a few files and he doesn't mind sending the hard copies out I would give it a try to see if it works for him.


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