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Scanner Question: Possible To Save Scans As Word Documents?

 
 
Roosh
 
Reply Mon 9 May, 2005 10:32 pm
I just made a few photocopies that I'd like to scan into my pc & save as Microsoft Word Documents.
Currently, the scanner (Epson "Perfection 1260") saves the scans as images in Adobe Photoshop by default.
Is anyone able to advise me on whether it's even possible to save as text documents?

Thanks very much Smile
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hingehead
 
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2005 11:05 pm
Yep, but you need an OCR package (Optical Character Recogniton) most scanners come with one - check the install disks or scanner doco and see if it's already on your computer. If it is just run it and it should detect the scanners twain driver and provide enough online help to get you started.

Probably the best is OCR software I've used is Omnipage which can do some really cool scanning into MSoffice things - but it ain't cheap.
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Roosh
 
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Reply Tue 31 May, 2005 09:02 pm
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Yep, but you need an OCR package (Optical Character Recogniton) most scanners come with one - check the install disks or scanner doco and see if it's already on your computer. If it is just run it and it should detect the scanners twain driver and provide enough online help to get you started.

Probably the best is OCR software I've used is Omnipage which can do some really cool scanning into MSoffice things - but it ain't cheap.

Apologies for the delayed response, hingehead :wink: and thanks for the reply.
I ended up deciding that it wasn't worth all of the hassle to scan those photocopies.
I'll keep your suggestion in mind if I decide to try it out later on. Smile
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