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[Mexican18]

On windows 10 using word, can I scan a list of email addresses and make them alphabetical?

[fiction-factory]

I'm pretty sure you'd need something Adobe with additional (paid for?) features to enable you to convert it into an editable format such as Word/Excel

[davegosling]

When you say 'scan', do you mean that you have a hard copy of email addresses that you need import into your computer with a scanner?

[fiction-factory]

I was assuming the scanned list is a scanned image rather than already in a word /microsoft/similar e-format, otherwise I'm not sure Mexican would have aske dthe question

[Mexican18]

Yes,I have a hard copy that I want to put on Word alphabeticaly Thanks for all your help.

[davegosling]

How many email addresses are there?

[Buenchico]

If you scan a document your computer simply sees it as a photo. (i.e. all it recognises is blocks of black, white and, if appropriate, colours placed on a page. It doesn't 'see' letters or words). To get a computer to 'translate' the 'photo' into letters and words requires the use of OCR (optical character recognition) software.

So before you can think about sorting a scanned list alphabetically you need to be looking for some OCR software to convert the scanned output from a 'photo' to text. Fortunately Windows 10 comes with Microsoft Document Imaging, which enables you to scan an image and then go to Tools > Send Text To Word, so that's where you need to start.

[Mexican18]

Thanks Chico.