Document editing

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marlin

When I scan a document and copy it to either Excell or Word, I an unable to
edit or modify. I use Windows Xp with all updates and Office 2000 Premium.
 
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Ardus Petus

You must process your scanned image with OCR before importing to Word/Excel

HTH
 
M

marlin

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Ardus Petus said:
You must process your scanned image with OCR before importing to Word/Excel

HTH
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AP




How do I set up OCR? My epson stylus cx4600 does not show any such function.
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G

GSalisbury

marlin said:
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function.
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OCR is a separate software set.
Example OmniPage.
You'd have to buy it (or something similar) and install it.
Then you'd use it to "acquire" and process the image.
 
P

Patricia Shannon

When you scan in a document, it what you get is a picture. Essentially, a
bunch of independent dots. Programs such as spreadshetts and word processors
operate on characters, a character is a set of binary 1's and 0's in a
particular patter that identifies the particular character. Different
computer systems use different codes for various characters, but common ones
are ASCII and Unicode.
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. An OCR program analizes a
picture to find patterns that it recognizes as characters, and translates the
picture to lines of characters that can be used by character-oriented
programs. OCR progrmams can make mistakes, so you need to look at the
converted document and not just assume it's ok.
If the document was originally in character format, it would be better if
you could obtain it more directly than scanning; eg., in an e-mail or an
attachment to an e-mail.
 
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marlin

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Patricia Shannon said:
When you scan in a document, it what you get is a picture. Essentially, a
bunch of independent dots. Programs such as spreadshetts and word processors
operate on characters, a character is a set of binary 1's and 0's in a
particular patter that identifies the particular character. Different
computer systems use different codes for various characters, but common ones
are ASCII and Unicode.
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. An OCR program analizes a
picture to find patterns that it recognizes as characters, and translates the
picture to lines of characters that can be used by character-oriented
programs. OCR progrmams can make mistakes, so you need to look at the
converted document and not just assume it's ok.
If the document was originally in character format, it would be better if
you could obtain it more directly than scanning; eg., in an e-mail or an
attachment to an e-mail.
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mwg
 
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