Question

At work, no one can find the digital version of a 20-page document that needs to be revised. you save the day by using a scanner and software to digitize the paper document.

Answer 1

The answer to this question is scanning software.
In order to transform a paper document into a digital form, you need both scanning hardware and scanning software.
Scanning software will transform the document into bits and usually will give some features such as enlarging the image, change some part of the text, etc.

Answer 2

Answer:

The question is not correctly stated, here is the the correctly stated question:

At work, no one can find the digital version of a 20-page document that needs to be revised. you save the day by using a scanner and ____________software to digitize the paper document.

The correct answer is optical character recognition (OCR)

Explanation:

Optical Character Recognition systems are those systems that recognizes texts (handwritten, typed or printed) in digital images.

In our example, after scanning the document, it is saved in the computer in picture formats which includes; JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), PDF (Portable Document Format), RAW (Raw image format) etc. and in this format, changes cannot be  made to the texts in the document, and since the document needs to be revised, changes could possibly be made, but the image format does not permit this, hence an OCR software is used to transform the image file to Excel, text or word document form which permits editing.

The OCR technology has evolved over time and recent technologies use intelligent algorithms to recognize curves and patterns in the different database fonts in the software to correctly interpret texts in images.

To get more understanding, you can read on OCRs.