Wish to make soft copy of an a4 page with editions and use as a template for work

JMak

JMak

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Hi
I have been wanting to scan/take picture of an A4 printed paper (I have an android phone and an ipad apart from a pc if they can be used)
Make certain edits to it and convert into a soft copy that I can use in goodnotes on my ipad to write on... As a template as if it was just like the original.
Once text is scribbeled on it, it should be able to be printed perfectly on a A4 paper.

Till now I was taking a pic then editing it painfully using this or that app to erase certain parts and then was Importing in my writing app on ipad.. But was never satisfied with the results.

Thanks
 
Scan > windows power toys > text recognition > paste into word/docs/whatever you want.

I forget the exact name but that utility allows you to use ocr to scan any part of your screen for text and copy it to clipboard.
 
calvin1719 said:
Scan > windows power toys > text recognition > paste into word/docs/whatever you want.

I forget the exact name but that utility allows you to use ocr to scan any part of your screen for text and copy it to clipboard.
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So this refers to pc, but the first step would be which app to use on Android to scan..
I have been using Microsoft scan to do it and then edit the document in an old android app called metamoji note..

But the main issue is the imported document is always of a tricky dimension
I can import it in goodnotes on my ipad but the exported page once text is scribbled with apple pencil, the printouts come
 
JMak said:
But the main issue is the imported document is always of a tricky dimension
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I think you misunderstand. You photograph the page with the phone camera, transfer to PC, use OCR, and paste the text into a text editor.

If you want to type on your ipad in a copy of the text, then save it as a .docx/.txt/whatever and transfer it to the ipad. If you want to scribble on top of the text copy without editing the text itself, like on an image, then take a windows screenshot of the document while it's open, and transfer that.

Image 1 is the image i took with my phone, the txt is the OCR captured text, the second image is a screenshot of word with the text entered (or there are word to jpg converters available).
Edit: or print the doc to pdf, whatever works best for the scribbling.
 

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If you use Apps like CamScanner or AdobeScan, they have built in filters to straighten and optimize documents for OCR. I think you can specify page size as well. If you have adobe acrobat then you can edit the created pdf's directly on PC. You can do your scribbling in Edit mode on Adobe PDF and publish directly back to PDF.
 
Hi
Sorry couldn't reply earlier.

The thing is the a4 paper has certain printed details which I wish to remove and leave a few as they are and then make a soft a4 version of it to be imported to the ipad so that text couldn't be added to it and printed.. Like a daily planner or prescription or indent list
. Anything but on a daily basis..
 
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