Graham,

I am an absolute newbie to scanning. Some months ago I bought an at that
time rather expensive HP scanner (the one with the detached glass frame, HP
4670) and used it now for the first time. I just put the glass frame over
the book to scan som 50 pages to MS WORD and yes, after the scanning process
was completed I found on my PC screen the resulting rtf-document.

I know it sounds stupid, but I have no idea what you mean by "use the plain
text output of the software and apply your own editing".

My own editing, that's what I want. But how do I get "the plain text output
of the software"? Because I use XP there was no need to install any software
(if I remenmber it well), I just plugged in the scanner and after XP
recognised it, it would function.

Please enlighten me on how to get te plain text output, which is apparently
exactly what I need.

Thousands thanks in advance.

Jack.



"Graham Mayor" schreef in bericht
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OCR software that formats the document using text boxes is a nightmare to
edit. You might find it simpler to use the plain text output of the
software
and apply your own editing.


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Jack Sons wrote:
Hi all,

I scanned a document of may pages. The result (a rtf-file) looks
fine, but in reality the text I see is not "text in a document" but
text in textboxes.

I really need this to convert to text "directly in the document",
like in any "normal" document. I mean that it will be as if I typed
it directly into the document.

Of course I could select (highlight) the text in the first textbox
and than paste it to a new document (a doc-file), do the same with
the text of the next textbox, past it below the first text in the new
docment etc. I tried, did it for a lot of textboxes, but it will be
very tedious to do it with the whole document because of the many
hundreds - maybe thouthands - of textboxes, some of which contain
only a single line of text..

Also there is a strange effect, when I try to "control c - control v
" the highlighted text of a textbox to the other document, suddenly
it is not the text that is copied to the new document, but the whole
textbox, and so it just moved the problem from one document to the
other one.

Can anyone show me a way out? Perhaps with VBA it will be possible to
convert all textboxes at once to normal text.

I am in very urgent need for advice. Please help.

Jack Sons
The Netherlands