Microsoft Document scanning and scanning

F

Frances

Please can anyone tell me when to use Microsoft Document Imaging and when to
use Document Scanning which are both part of my Office 2003 Pro installation?
I just cant work out what the difference is between the two!
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

Others will give you a better response but I can tell you that I don't use
either one even tho I have them.
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Frances,

MS Office Document imaging is for manipulating scanned documents. You can move pages, text, etc to different location, highlight
and annotate the text, or use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert a picture (.TIF or .MDI) of a document to MS Word as
text.

MS Office Document Scanning is an interface to your scanner to read and send the documents to MS Office Document imaging as a .TIF
or .MDI file.

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Please can anyone tell me when to use Microsoft Document Imaging and when to
use Document Scanning which are both part of my Office 2003 Pro installation?
I just cant work out what the difference is between the two! >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS to the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie :)
the 2007 Microsoft Office system info,
online Test Drive, or downloadable beta is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net
 
F

Frances

Yes Bob,
But are you saying what I suspect and that is if I start from Document
Scanning the result ends up in the Document Imaging program the same as if I
started in Document Imaging in the first place. I have found that the
resulting tiffs are of excellent clarity and I use them to email scanned
documents to my father.

After writing this I think I understand, but could you further clarify the
matter by elaborating when you might use one rather than the other. Do you
find either of them useful yourself, unlike JoAnn Paules. I have noticed
that the file size of some of them is rather large. I have also noticed that
the program says it is performing OCR when I havent asked it to and the
resultant file is a tiff. If you have any further thoughts I would be
grateful.

Thanks Bob
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

I've been quite content to use the software than came with my scanner. If I
know that I will need to edit a photo, then I open my photo editing software
program, import the image from the scanner, edit the image, and then save
the result. Paper Port's OCR software does a tolerable enough job. Since I
have been using this software for a while, I am more productive. YMMV, of
course. :)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Frances,

If you use the Acquire (from scanner) option in MS Office Document Imaging then it is calling the MS Office Document Imaging
Scanning app, so yes in that scenario it's tied to the MS Office Document imaging application.

You can also scan into a graphics app, such as http://irfanview.com and send in a variety of graphics format.

If the person you are sending to has Office XP, 2003 or 2007 then you can, in MS Office Document Imaging, choose the .MDI format,
which is a TIFF derivative that creates more compact files, but except for one 3rd party utility, so far to view MDI files you would
need to have MS Office Document Imaging installed.

When you open MS Office Document Scanning from MS Office Document Imaging (File=>Scan New document), select a 'preset' Then 'Preset
Options', Edit Selected Preset and you can turn off the automatic OCR under the 'Processing' tab.

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Yes Bob,
But are you saying what I suspect and that is if I start from Document
Scanning the result ends up in the Document Imaging program the same as if I
started in Document Imaging in the first place. I have found that the
resulting tiffs are of excellent clarity and I use them to email scanned
documents to my father.

After writing this I think I understand, but could you further clarify the
matter by elaborating when you might use one rather than the other. Do you
find either of them useful yourself, unlike JoAnn Paules. I have noticed
that the file size of some of them is rather large. I have also noticed that
the program says it is performing OCR when I havent asked it to and the
resultant file is a tiff. If you have any further thoughts I would be
grateful.

Thanks Bob>>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS to the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie :)
the 2007 Microsoft Office system info,
online Test Drive, or downloadable beta is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net
 
F

Frances

Thanks Bob

I have tried turning OCR off and it doesnt seem to make any difference to
the file size of the resulting document which I suppose is obvious if it is a
tiff file. It cant be storing the OCR data as well as the image.

Anyway I am going to go back in my cave now and think about things for a
while. I will bear in mind what you said about MDI formats.
 
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