“You mean all this time I didn’t have to retype my document?”
Correct.
OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, which most scanners on the market today have built right in to the software take a document that has text on it and converts it to editable text in Microsoft Word or RTF programs like notepad.
It is usually just the click of a button and then a scan option. It means going from here.
…to here:

