You can scan a document and convert the text into data that you
can edit with a word processing, spreadsheet, or HTML-editing
program. This process is called OCR (Optical Character
Recognition).
To scan and use OCR, you need to install an OCR program, such as
ABBYY FineReader.
Note: You can use
ABBYY FineReader to convert scanned documents to editable text in
Mac OS X 10.6. First, scan and save your document using an
application such as Image Capture. Then open ABBYY FineReader, open
the Get Images From pop-up menu and
select File. Select the conversion
option you want to use, then select your scanned file and follow
the instructions on the screen.