How can I work with a scanned XL image?

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I scanned for a friend a XL image and the scan is fine, but how can I make
any changes to it?

The image is in jpg format, not xl and does not allow changes to it.

Any help is appreciated.
 
Ritter 197 said:
I scanned for a friend a XL image
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Do you mean an Excel spreadsheet page, or did you scan a printed page whose
source was an XL-format picture?
and the scan is fine, but how can I make any changes to it?
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With an image editor that supports the image format.

What kind of changes do you want to make?
The image is in jpg format, not xl and does not allow changes to it.
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The scan will be in a format that the scanner software supports, yes. The
original "format" is entirely irrelevant - it could be "porcelain".

All that matters is the format it's in now, which is apparently jpg.
Any help is appreciated.
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Again, if was an image file, you need image editing software. If it was an
Excel sheet, you need OCR software or to just sit down and re-create it.
Formulas and calculated cells will of course be lost.

HTH
-pk
 
I scanned for a friend a XL image and the scan is fine, but how can I
make any changes to it?

The image is in jpg format, not xl and does not allow changes to it.

Any help is appreciated.
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OK; it's a jpeg image. That's good.
What are you trying to edit it with? Paint? Irfanview? What?
What does XL mean: Excel? If it's a jpeg image, it's an image file that
could be inserted into Excel if you wanted to, or Word, or about any of
the rest of the Office programs. But you need to give more info.
 
I am answering to the best of my memory, because it is an EXCEL page that a
friend of mine printed. He had to format his drive and even though we backed
up his "My Documents", it could not be found in the backup again.
But he had made a paper copy and scanned it. It is now a jpeg file. He wants
to change some figures of the sheet and then keep it in a proper format
where he can work with it in the future.
What does he have to do?
He does have MS Office Pro 2003.
Does this help?
 
There is no way you can data changes in a "picture of a spread sheet".
A jpg image is just that, a picture of the sheet.
Even if you could do an OCR of the data, you would not get the equations back.
I suggest your friend sit down and start entering the data and equations into a new file.

|I am answering to the best of my memory, because it is an EXCEL page that a
| friend of mine printed. He had to format his drive and even though we backed
| up his "My Documents", it could not be found in the backup again.
| But he had made a paper copy and scanned it. It is now a jpeg file. He wants
| to change some figures of the sheet and then keep it in a proper format
| where he can work with it in the future.
| What does he have to do?
| He does have MS Office Pro 2003.
| Does this help?
|
| | >> I scanned for a friend a XL image and the scan is fine, but how can I
| >> make any changes to it?
| >>
| >> The image is in jpg format, not xl and does not allow changes to it.
| >>
| >> Any help is appreciated.
| >
| > OK; it's a jpeg image. That's good.
| > What are you trying to edit it with? Paint? Irfanview? What?
| > What does XL mean: Excel? If it's a jpeg image, it's an image file that
| > could be inserted into Excel if you wanted to, or Word, or about any of
| > the rest of the Office programs. But you need to give more info.
| >
| > --
| >
| > How to Post a newsgroup
| > question effectively:
| > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375
| >
| >
| >
 
Ritter 197 said:
I am answering to the best of my memory, because it is an EXCEL page that
a friend of mine printed. He had to format his drive and even though we
backed up his "My Documents", it could not be found in the backup again.
But he had made a paper copy and scanned it. It is now a jpeg file. He
wants to change some figures of the sheet and then keep it in a proper
format where he can work with it in the future.
What does he have to do?
He does have MS Office Pro 2003.
Does this help?
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It does, thanks, and the answer is simple. He has to re-create the
spreadsheet and re-enter the data.

What you have is a picture of a bunch of numbers, you do not have actual
numbers.

You can try OCR with this but because of its inherent unreliability it's a
very bad plan do do this with figures, and as far as I know, Excel does not
accept scanned input.

You'd have to OCR to a text file, and the gridlines could well be a big
problem for this, then hope that Excel could import the text as some sort
of fixed-length data format. Then you will have to go through every
number and compare it to the printed page to be sure that the numbers and
placements are correct. And calculated fields just will *not* be there.
Calculations will have to be re-entered.

If it's only one page, it won't take long to re-create and re-enter the
data.

HTH
-pk
 
Thanks for advice.

His daughter is going to do it for him, since he is legally blind and needs
super large keyboard and a 32 " screen, and even then a magnifying glass 1"
away from screen.
 
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