Was Document Imaging introduced in Word 2002? If so, it provides rudimentary
OCR capabilities. I very much prefer to use those that came with my scanner,
though.
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"Doug Robbins" wrote in message
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You will need some Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to convert
the scanned image into text that can be edited.

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"Cynthia" wrote in message
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I have microsoft word XP. I scanned my study guide to word. But I can not
type within the text. (to answer the questions) Can this be done? Help!!