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Scanning into word
How do I scan directly into Word from my scanner menu. My scanner asks me
what file I would like to save the scan in, but not what program I would like to open the scan with. If I scan with the Office Document Imager, when I open the scan in Word, it completely loses it's format. All text is smashed together. I just want to scan in forms to be filled out (filling in the blanks) but if I ever get the scan into Word the Blanks are no longer there. Please Help Me |
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Scanning into word
You can either scan to a graphics format (the usual output of a scanner) or
into OCR software that converts the document to text (Microsoft Document Imaging is but a rudimentary form of OCR software). Neither will produce a document that you can open in Word and 'fill in the blanks' without a great deal of work. For a one off, use a pen and forget all about Word. If you insist then insert the scanned image as a background image at 100% size and create a form over it using (borderless) tables.. If you have a need to produce lots of editable forms or to collate many such forms then there are specialised form filling packages that will read scanned forms - but they tend to be expensive. The corporate version of Finereader 6 had such a form filling tool included, but it appears to have been removed from more recent versions and modified to sell as a stand-alone product. If you are lucky enough to have that version of Finereader the form module makes the job very simple. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Angel needs help please wrote: How do I scan directly into Word from my scanner menu. My scanner asks me what file I would like to save the scan in, but not what program I would like to open the scan with. If I scan with the Office Document Imager, when I open the scan in Word, it completely loses it's format. All text is smashed together. I just want to scan in forms to be filled out (filling in the blanks) but if I ever get the scan into Word the Blanks are no longer there. Please Help Me |
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Angel needs help please wrote:
How do I scan directly into Word from my scanner menu. My scanner asks me what file I would like to save the scan in, but not what program I would like to open the scan with. If I scan with the Office Document Imager, when I open the scan in Word, it completely loses it's format. All text is smashed together. I just want to scan in forms to be filled out (filling in the blanks) but if I ever get the scan into Word the Blanks are no longer there. Please Help Me Scan and save as a text document. Then open the text document with Word. You will loose formatting, but that's easy to fix. It's a lot easier than any other way that I can think of. Bernard W Joseph a guy who scans a lot |
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