Can Microsoft Document Imaging (MDI) files be converted

[SD]

I have a couple of hundred scans which were saved as MDI files. Can these be
converted to any other format or are the scans useless outside Office XP?

 

[Og]

From within an Office application, type "MDI" in the Help pane, and you will
find the following explanation:
What is document imaging?
Document imaging is the process of scanning paper documents, converting them
to digital images that are then stored on CD, DVD, or other magnetic
storage. With Microsoft Office Document Imaging, you can scan paper
documents and convert them to digital images that you can save in Tagged
Image File Format (TIFF) (Tagged Image File Format (TIFF): A
high-resolution, tag-based graphics format. TIFF is used for the universal
interchange of digital graphics.) or Microsoft Document Imaging Format (MDI)
(Microsoft Document Imaging Format (MDI): A high resolution, tag-based
graphics format, based on the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) used for
digital graphics.) to your computer's hard disk, network server, CD, or DVD.
Microsoft Office Document Imaging also gives you the ability to perform
optical character recognition (OCR) (OCR: Translates images of text, such as
scanned documents, into actual text characters. Also known as text
recognition.) either as part of scanning a document, or while you work with
a TIFF or MDI file. By performing OCR, you can then copy recognized text
from a scanned image or a fax into a Microsoft Word document or other Office
program file.

 

[SD]

This doesn't realy answer the question. The "documents" I have scanned are
praphics (actually blueprints) and the point was to use another program to
stitch them together into a larger, more encompassing size showing a complete
sheet of the blueprints as one file. when they were scanned, a rather
laborious process involving eight scans per page, we had no realization that
they were beingstored as .mdi file, a proprietory file type whcih can be used
nowhere outside of this one, Microsoft program. All I am asking is if there
is any sort of converter out there which will take these .mdi files and store
them in a useful format.

 

[- Bob Buckland ?:-\) -]

Hi SD,

MDI files are a MS derivative of the TIFF file formats. From within MS
Office Document Imaging 2003 to resave the files in TIF format (usually
larger file size) but at present haven't yet come across 3rd party
converters that can open the MDI file format.
When saving as TIF be sure you check the Tools=>Options=>Compression
settings.

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This doesn't realy answer the question. The "documents" I have scanned are
praphics (actually blueprints) and the point was to use another program to
stitch them together into a larger, more encompassing size showing a
complete
sheet of the blueprints as one file. when they were scanned, a rather
laborious process involving eight scans per page, we had no realization that
they were beingstored as .mdi file, a proprietory file type whcih can be
used
nowhere outside of this one, Microsoft program. All I am asking is if there
is any sort of converter out there which will take these .mdi files and
store
them in a useful format. >>