How to convert .tiff files and edit

[jr70895]

I have scanned several text pages and they are .tiff microsoft document imiging files now. I would like to view and edit the files. I am using office 2003, can someone tell me how to edit these files. Not sure how to do it, I can view them but not sure what to do to allow me to edit. Thanks

[smurfy]

Edit in what way?
If you want to edit the text, you will need OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to convert the file so you can modify using Word.

[Harrie]

If scanned pages have handwritten text, forget this post.

But otherwise, I have a software to suggest, if you're only going to need this now and not on a permanent basis. It's an optical character recognition system for digital cameras, not scanners. It's just under 30 bucks to buy and has a free trial. Yet, I never involved my camera in any way, but it does a very good job at converting tif files to text so that you can do what you need to do. (For instance, with a tif file that had 14 pages of scanned text, I had only to open the tif file in TopOCR, then click OCR. The text showed on the right-sided screen (tif on left), and I was able to copy and paste into Word. Go to Page>Next, click OCR again, and the next page is converted to text. There will be some fixing up to do, it didn't want to recognize a few formatting details, like underlining, and handwritten notes on the pages did not come out correctly, naturally. But overall, it does the job superbly well on large paragraphs of text.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/topocr.html