This is not Microsoft, but a user peer group, so your misguided derision is
targeted at the wrong audience. With respect to OCR and scanning
capabilities Word 2007 has *exactly* the same functionality as Word 2003. It
is merely applied in a slightly different manner. Whether or not you can be
bothered to learn how to do that is a matter for you. Whether your company
is giving the best advice is another question entirely.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
Adge wrote:
This is getting worse and worse. So even OCR isn't automatic, and has
to go through yet another stage?
My company - with my full support and in part on my advice - has
decided to return to Office 2003 for the moment, and is evaluating
other options like OpenOffice and StarOffice. This wasn't the only
issue we have with Office 2007, but it was the one that made it
economically unusable. We do consultancy for other companies, and we
are advising them to take the same route.
We find Microsoft's attitude on this incredible.
Of course it can't be edited. A scanned document is a graphic. Word
is not a graphics editor. If you want to edit the document you need
to convert the graphic to editable text, for which you need OCR
(optical character reading) software. Word 2007 comes with a
rudimentary OCR package called Microsoft Document Imaging, which is
not installed by default. Re-run Office setup and install it.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
loubhappy wrote:
I was able to scan onto clipboard then into word -BUT- no text
could be edited except for those specified on tool bar. A useless
exercise. Lot of postings about this and I don't think that printer
software is the problem. "Adge" wrote:
Yes, I can understand that. We do that too for whole documents.
But a lot of our work involves an outer document with several long
citations from paper documents.
In the past, we've written the outer document in Word, inserting
the citations directly from the scanner as needed. It seems now we
will have to scan each potential citation source as a separate Word
document first, and then cut-and-paste. This is itself slow, it
will encourage unnecessary scanning, and inevitably a citation
will have been overlooked and will have to be scanned and saved
and opened. All of this wil massively increase our turnround time.
I'm wondering if there is a Visual Basic solution, but that will
cost money, as well.
--
Alan Jackson
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
I've never had to do a copy and paste. I scan my docs in and then
send it to Word with the scanner's built-in OCR software.
--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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"Adge" wrote in message
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I think there's a misunderstanding here. In older versions of
Word there was
an option to import TEXT from a scanner. That seems to have
vanished completely. All the replies seem to expect me to scan in
my text separately
to some other program and then copy-and-paste into Word - this is
impossibly
time consuming. There must be a better way.
--
Alan Jackson
"Darrell" wrote:
I was able in word 2003 to scan directly into it from my
scanner. Now the scanner software does not list word as an
option because it is 2007. My scanner is an hp 6310 all-in-one.
Is there anything I can do from the word
side or am I at the mercy of HP?