Scanned images to documents

After watching the movie 'Accepted' today, I really want to do something showed in the movie. The Main actor scans a document, and it automatically shows up as a document in Pages instead of an image. Is this movie magic or is it possible? I know and have an application that does someting similar, but it didn't look as refined as the Pages document showed in the movie; there were even images in the document. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.

It is possible, but not quite that easy. You will need to use an OCR (optical character recognition) program to convert the pictures of letters into letters. If you have a scanner, it may have come with such as program. Usually, the bundled programs are the "lite" version, but often adequate.
Newer versions of the shareware program, VueScan, are supposed to be able to do OCR. I've used OmniPage Pro X for several years with great success. I had started with the lite version with a previous scanner & bought the retail version when I moved to OS X. It's not cheap, though. Click the Apple tab at the top of this page > Where to Buy > Made4Mac (both in the bar under the tabs). That will take you to http://guide.apple.com/index.lasso (Apple US web site) where you can search for all kinds of software & hardware. An advanced search for software with the keyword OCR returned several possibilities. I've also heard good things about Read Iris Pro.

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