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How to edit a scanned document with Word?
I am revising a procedure manual. The original version is scanned in to my
Word 2003 with an HP OCR reader (HP Director). I am able to save the document in rich text format, but I cannot edit it. It will display in Word very clearly, but I cannot get to the point of being able to edit the text to update the manual. The pages have mostly just text, but there are some boxes and blank lines for signatures of those approving the procedures. The text varies in font size from about a 10 to about a 16 or 18 point type. If anyone has any ideas about how to do this, it would be awesome. Thank You! |
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How to edit a scanned document with Word?
I hate HP's scanning software. You'd do better trying to find a support
group for that software because it's not a Word issue. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "average_guy" wrote in message ... I am revising a procedure manual. The original version is scanned in to my Word 2003 with an HP OCR reader (HP Director). I am able to save the document in rich text format, but I cannot edit it. It will display in Word very clearly, but I cannot get to the point of being able to edit the text to update the manual. The pages have mostly just text, but there are some boxes and blank lines for signatures of those approving the procedures. The text varies in font size from about a 10 to about a 16 or 18 point type. If anyone has any ideas about how to do this, it would be awesome. Thank You! |
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How to edit a scanned document with Word?
JoAnn: Thanks for the reply. Word issue or not, I still need to fix it. Any
advice on a workaround that I can do? I am running office 2003 on XP. I can get the scanned document to come up in Word in a rich text format, but just cannot edit it when it opens. Thanks! "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: I hate HP's scanning software. You'd do better trying to find a support group for that software because it's not a Word issue. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "average_guy" wrote in message ... I am revising a procedure manual. The original version is scanned in to my Word 2003 with an HP OCR reader (HP Director). I am able to save the document in rich text format, but I cannot edit it. It will display in Word very clearly, but I cannot get to the point of being able to edit the text to update the manual. The pages have mostly just text, but there are some boxes and blank lines for signatures of those approving the procedures. The text varies in font size from about a 10 to about a 16 or 18 point type. If anyone has any ideas about how to do this, it would be awesome. Thank You! |
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How to edit a scanned document with Word?
Ask someone with HP's support.
Are you sure you have an .rtf file? It sounds more like an image if you can't edit it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "average_guy" wrote in message ... JoAnn: Thanks for the reply. Word issue or not, I still need to fix it. Any advice on a workaround that I can do? I am running office 2003 on XP. I can get the scanned document to come up in Word in a rich text format, but just cannot edit it when it opens. Thanks! "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: I hate HP's scanning software. You'd do better trying to find a support group for that software because it's not a Word issue. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "average_guy" wrote in message ... I am revising a procedure manual. The original version is scanned in to my Word 2003 with an HP OCR reader (HP Director). I am able to save the document in rich text format, but I cannot edit it. It will display in Word very clearly, but I cannot get to the point of being able to edit the text to update the manual. The pages have mostly just text, but there are some boxes and blank lines for signatures of those approving the procedures. The text varies in font size from about a 10 to about a 16 or 18 point type. If anyone has any ideas about how to do this, it would be awesome. Thank You! |
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How to edit a scanned document with Word?
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in
: Ask someone with HP's support. Are you sure you have an .rtf file? It sounds more like an image if you can't edit it. I'm with JoAnn and inclined to believe you have an image saved as an object in RTF. Open the RTF with NotePad and see if it displays straight text. or a bunch of gibberish. Then open any JPG with Notepad and seeing similar gibberish will confirm you have an image. I OCR daily and in RTF files using WordPad as opposed to Word and have no problem editing anything. |
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How to edit a scanned document with Word?
I'm using the OEM version of PaperPort and using the OCR part of that is a
snap. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Don" wrote in message . 17.102... "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in : Ask someone with HP's support. Are you sure you have an .rtf file? It sounds more like an image if you can't edit it. I'm with JoAnn and inclined to believe you have an image saved as an object in RTF. Open the RTF with NotePad and see if it displays straight text. or a bunch of gibberish. Then open any JPG with Notepad and seeing similar gibberish will confirm you have an image. I OCR daily and in RTF files using WordPad as opposed to Word and have no problem editing anything. |
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