Scanning paper spreadsheet into excel

[dstock]

I hope I have the right forum. Does anyone know of a program that can scan a piece of paper that is basically a spreadsheet into excel?

I have printed trade records that I can only view. When I print them out to have a hard copy they look exactly like an excel printout. I want to scan them with my scanner and be able to save into an excel file, anyone know a program that can do this?

[Duke Carey]

Your scanner should have software with it that will do this in some limited
fashion. You are looking for OCR software. Some of the packages are
TextBridge, OmniPage, ReadIris. Check your scanner documentation

"dstock" wrote:

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> I hope I have the right forum. Does anyone know of a program that can
> scan a piece of paper that is basically a spreadsheet into excel?
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> I have printed trade records that I can only view. When I print them
> out to have a hard copy they look exactly like an excel printout. I
> want to scan them with my scanner and be able to save into an excel
> file, anyone know a program that can do this?
>
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