Optical Character Recognition

I have a load of documents that I need to scan into an editable format. I've sopken to a couple of print shops who've said its not a possibility to have it in an editable format at the moment and that the best I could do would be PDF's.

Anyone know of a company that could scan all my docs into an editable Word document?

 

I'd be cheapest if you bought the OCR software and did it yourself.

I guess the shops are talking about scanning to an image PDF which can be done automatically and is easy. OCR is much better than it used to be but never gets every word right and can add funny formatting if you're trying to capture that in the documents as well.
You'll need to proof read carefully.

 

i use expervision typereader 6 professional which works very well.

 

Just tried the software we have here in the office. Iris Readiris Pro 8 and it works just fine. Don't have a document handler though so could be time consuming. Strange that companies didn't seem to be able to offer it as Word files. The above software is very easy to get a doc into Word format.
I'll save the taxpayers money and do it on that!