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taking urls from printout

BloodThirsty · 2014-08-18 22:00:09

got several pages of material including lots of links i.e urls. is there anyway to load them to website instead of typing the url to a web browser. if scanned could you copy paste

18-08-2014 11:00pm

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BloodThirsty

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got several pages of material including lots of links i.e urls. is there anyway to load them to website instead of typing the url to a web browser. if scanned could you copy paste

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#2 18-08-2014 11:15pm

STEINBERG

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Usually scans are saved as .jpg or similar... i have scans that have been saved as .pdf but i am unable to copy and paste from them... but then i have original documents that were created as .pdf and i can copy and paste.. id say you might resigned to typing out the urls

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#3 18-08-2014 11:46pm

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What you want to do is scan the document and then use OCR software (your scanner probably came with some) to parse the scanned image into text.
It's an extra step though, and not always entirely accurate.
Unless the URL is very long it would probably be quicker to just type it in.

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#4 19-08-2014 1:45pm

CreepingDeath

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If you've an Android smart phone, then Google "Goggles" app has OCR.
Scan it with the phone and e-mail yourself the results.

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