Office XP &"older" scanner

[nickblears]

Could someone please tell me how to get my relativley new scanner (hpscanjet 4200c) to send a normal scanned letter to the new office xp "word 2002 " programme? It doesn't appear in the "send to" options box.... and as I'm still learning & ezperimenting ,I'm not too sure what to save it as.I basicaly want to edit a letter. Any help would be appreciated. I am using Windows Me.

[mpc]

Go to Start>Programs>Microsoft Office Tools>Microsoft Office Document Scanning. When the dialog box pops up...scan your doc. Once the doc is scanned into Microsoft Office Document Imaging you'll have the option of sending it directly to Word. To do that go to File>Send Text To Word.

[This message has been edited by mpc (edited 11-07-2001).]

[slipe]

I suppose you are aware that you have to send a scanned document through OCR before a word processor can use it as anything but an imported photo.

I think HPs that integrate the bundled OCR software automatically send it through OCR if you scan it as “Text”, but not “black and white” or “grayscale”. Go through your HP manual or help files to determine how to get the scanned image through OCR.

Once you get a text file you can save it in My Documents and open it with Word from there. You should have an option to send it directly to Word once you get the OCR sorted out.

Looks like we posted at the same time and mpc’s post is a lot more specific for Office XP. My older version of Office doesn’t have that tool – sounds great if your scanner understands.




[This message has been edited by slipe (edited 11-07-2001).]

[nickblears]

Thanks a lot,but Ifound what I had to do was reinstall Office 97,so the scanner would recognise it ! Still learning...but what a lot of fun.! May Ialso say this is the most helpful & imformative forum I;ve come across. Keep up the good work.

[slipe]

Not sure what you might have installed with Office 97 that would allow text documents to be imported. If you install the MS imaging from the Office CD it adds Insert>Picture>From Scanner, which allows you to scan directly from Word. But it is a picture as it says, and not text you can edit.

Editable text has to come from the scanner via OCR, and it is the OCR program that has to direct the file to Word 97. Most OCR programs will export directly to Word in .doc format. From mpc’s post it appears that Office XP is more competent at scanning for OCR.

To get text to Word 97 from my HP 6250 I have a couple choices. I can open the HP scanner software and set it for text. Save it to My Documents and the scanner automatically scans and does OCR. Now I have a .txt file in My documents. I can right click on it and send it to Word, or have Word open the file.

I can also open Omnipage Pro and have it scan the document and send it to Word as a .doc. You probably can’t do this unless you have a retail OCR program.

If I try to import text with Insert>Picture>From Scanner, “text” is grayed out so I can only import a picture of a document and not text I can work with.

If you have a way of having Word 97 import editable text directly from your scanner I would appreciate the information.