Is there a way that when you print an essay and then scan that. is it possible it can be reformated to a text.

Q: how can you do it if possible

A: Yes. You need something called OCR software. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognization. There are a lot of programs out there that will do this, one may have been included with your scanner. If you only have to do this once, get a free trial of a program like ABBYY FineReader. https://store.abbyyusa.com/cgi-bin/dlreg?ID=FR9TB

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