Q: WHEN I SCAN A DOCUMENT TO MY MAC PRO AND TRY TO SEND IT TO PAGES TO EDIT IT SAYS IT IS IN THE WRONG FORMAT. DOES MY MAC PRO HAVE A ... WHEN I SCAN A DOCUMENT TO MY MAC PRO AND TRY TO SEND IT TO PAGES TO EDIT IT SAYS IT IS IN THE WRONG FORMAT. DOES MY MAC PRO HAVE A PROGRAM TO HANDLE THIS OR DO I HAVE TO B UY A PROGRAM more
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Jul 18, 2016 4:04 PM in response to rick-barbby Carolyn Samit,Hi ..
See, "Pages for Mac" here > Import and export different file formats with Pages - Apple Support
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Jul 18, 2016 4:06 PM in response to rick-barbby BobTheFisherman,What format is your scanned document, PDF, jpg ?
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Jul 18, 2016 4:56 PM in response to BobTheFishermanby rick-barb,jpg. WHEN I TRIED TO EXPORT THE DOCUMENT FROM FINDER TO PAGES, IT WAS GRAYED OUT. WHAT NOW?
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Jul 18, 2016 5:02 PM in response to BobTheFishermanby rick-barb,NOT SURE MY REPLY WENT THROUGH (BEAR WITH ME, I'M 85) THE FORMAT OF THE DOCUMENT IN QUESTION IS jpg. WHEN I WENT TO THE SITE SUGGESTED BY ANOTHER RESPONDER, I TRIED TO IMPORT TO 'PAGES" BUT IT WAS GRAYED OUT. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?
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Jul 19, 2016 1:42 AM in response to rick-barbby PeterBreis0807,A jpg is just a photo of the text not the text itself.
You need to run the scanned image through an Optical Character Recognition [OCR] application which will convert the image into real text (mostly but not completely accurate) that you can edit.
Most scanners come with some OCR software, have a look at the utilities for your scanner.
Peter