journey00 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I would like to scan a form with book report questions and have my son type in all the information instead of writing it out by hand. What software do I need & how is that done? Tia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 On what device? For phone, ipad, or tablet, you just need a pdf editor app. For computer, hmm. On mac you can pull that into Preview. I use Notability on my ipad. Someone was just showing me the ClaroPDF app. Not only can you annotate the pdf, but ClaroPDF can *read* the pdf. Thing is, to do that you need the OCR (I think?) scan. That requires a special app and can be obnoxious. But if you get the gig going and get good at it, you'd have both features. And Claro is really snazzy with extra things it could do. It was quite impressive. But that would be for dyslexia + a typing accommodation. If you just need typing, any pdf editor will do. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journey00 Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 Oops. On a PC. I will google OCR and check my Brother printer's functions since it may already have it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I'd just recreate it on Word. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 If you have a cell phone, you can use an app like Turboscan to make a pdf of whatever you take a picture of. It's super easy. Won't make an OCR, but you only need OCR if you want the pdf to have embedded the actual digital text to make it readable and searchable. I tried an app for that once and it was really cantankerous, not getting all the words. I wouldn't bother unless you NEED that feature. So I use Turboscan to make a pdf of the page. Yes, your Brother copier/scanner should be able to do it. Once you have the pdf, you just get it onto your device and open with the pdf editor app. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 How many questions are there? I would either type it up myself or have him type it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journey00 Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 No, I am not going to re-type the document in Word. That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I will check out Turboscan and thanks to everyone for your replies. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 If the scanning doesn't work out, why not just have him type his answers (without the questions), numbered, even though they're not on the form? If he has to turn this in to someone else, will they not accept such a document? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I'm a turboscan fanatic. :D I just do the single shot, not the triple. You can add pages, crop, adjust darkness. You can send it to yourself in an email or you can sync it to Dropbox. Dropbox is free and gives you enough space to hold quite a few documents or pictures. Your dropbox account is a cloud account, so you can sync something to it from the phone and then it will be on your ipad, your desktop, whatever. Then once it's in dropbox on the device, you go to Notability and open it, no problem. Hold it, there's another app, SnapType. I think in that one you can scan and edit, all in one. Probably available for both android and apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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