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For those that need to convert documents from images and graphics into text, you may find ScanR a very useful tool.
It allows you to email JPG documents to their site, and uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to transform the picture into a text document that you can then edit. There are some requirements in order to make sure that the picture is clear enough and big enough, but the site gives you an image quality rating for each scan so you can see whether you are using images that they can recognise.
Once scanned you can then edit the text with OpenOffice! 
My name is Stephanie Krishnan and I'm passionate about the way that open source software and its community can help small businesses and individuals with their productivity and lives. One of the biggest arguments I get from business owners, however, is lack of support options. I decided to put together my own support blog to help people be productive at various levels with one of my favourite open source alternatives: OpenOffice.org! I do this through tutorials, downloadable templates and answers to questions from readers!
