Hi Charisma, In theory, any OCR program should be able to turn your picture of text into text, providing the file format of the picture is one that the particular OCR program can handle. Examples of such software are Abbyy Fine Reader, OmniPage, and Kurzweil 1000. Is that what you wanted to know? Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charisma Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 3:10 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] "scan" from within computer? I have a question. Say I have a picture of text on my computer--that is, an image of a book page rather than an editable text scan--can I use any software to read that and make it into editable text? I am not sure if I said that clearly. Example: I scanned a book into my computer as photographs of the pages. Is there any application I can use to "read" that photograph and convert it into text? To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.