Pasting from a letter?

[1rovert]

I am getting mail (snailmail) from France, and have to translate it. If I type it into word, I can copy & paste it to the translator. The problem is, I would like to copy from the scan. Any sugestions please? Thank you in advance.

[rojash]

Most decent scanners include OCR (optical character recognition) software in the bundle. Some of it is very good indeed.

For example, I have Omnipage SE from ScanSoft.

However, if the letter is handwritten I don't think you'll have much luck.

[1rovert]

Thanks again rojash! Couldn't we fixed line, would save me a lot of bother.