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Scanning into Word 2007
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? |
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Use the software that came with your printer.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Darrell" wrote in message ... 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? |
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JoAnn, What I was sayingn is that the software that came with my printer does
not recognize word 2007 as a possible candidate to write the scanned document "to". Is there some other kind of work around? Darrell "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Use the software that came with your printer. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Darrell" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Check to see if there's an upgrade for your printer software.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Darrell" wrote in message ... JoAnn, What I was sayingn is that the software that came with my printer does not recognize word 2007 as a possible candidate to write the scanned document "to". Is there some other kind of work around? Darrell "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Use the software that came with your printer. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Darrell" wrote in message ... 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? |
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See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924462/en-us "How to insert an image
from a scanner into a Word 2007 document". 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? |
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?B?RGFycmVsbA==?= wrote in
: JoAnn, What I was sayingn is that the software that came with my printer does not recognize word 2007 as a possible candidate to write the scanned document "to". Is there some other kind of work around? Darrell "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Use the software that came with your printer. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Darrell" wrote in message ... 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? Perhaps that's because "saving" your scanned documents is NOT related to "writing to your printer". A scaner utilizing OCR, first; scans the document as a temporary TIF file, then the OCR software (which BTW comes with your scanner) coverts the recognized text to what ever file formats are available from the software of which you utilized ("acquired") the OCR software through. It's a simple task to utilize WordPad as you "acquire" software. Scanner setup software have allowed this option since 1996 or earlier. Afterwards, you may convert the WordPad RTF (aka Word 6.0) to what ever version or format you desire utilizing Word 2007. |
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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? |
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If there is a better way, I don't know of it. Scanner support has been
dropped from Word 2007. Your scanner software may offer an option to scan into Word document format. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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I think you are referring to Microsoft Document Imaging? I understand that
this (as in previous versions) is not installed by default.. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Adge wrote: 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. 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? |
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No. I'm referring to the import item on the File menu in Word.
Alan Jackson "Graham Mayor" wrote: I think you are referring to Microsoft Document Imaging? I understand that this (as in previous versions) is not installed by default.. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Adge wrote: 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. 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? |
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Scanner support has been dropped? That's insane! It's always been a major
item of use - if it's truly not available I think my company will have to change to a different application altogether. Its that serious. -- Alan Jackson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If there is a better way, I don't know of it. Scanner support has been dropped from Word 2007. Your scanner software may offer an option to scan into Word document format. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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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] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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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] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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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] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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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] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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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. -- Alan Jackson "Graham Mayor" wrote: 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] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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I'm not sure what you mean by "Microsoft's attitude on this" but Word has
never had OCR functionality built-in. What did you do exactly in the previous version to accomplish what you are trying to do in Word 2007? Perhaps a third-party add-in was used? A lot of scanners include some type of OCR functionality that is automatically installed and integrated in Word when you install the scanner utilities. FWIW, I don't think OpenOffice or StarOffice has OCR functionality built-in either. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton "Adge" wrote in message ... 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. -- Alan Jackson "Graham Mayor" wrote: 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] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Hi Alan,
This is basically a peer support discussion group so not sure what 'attitude' you (plural) are referring to  or what is getting'worse and worse'. The OCR capabilities of Microsoft Office are the same in Office 2003 and in Office 2007, in part because there are a number of 3rd party apps that are available for enterprise use and/or that come with the printer scanner hardware. =============== "Adge" wrote in message ... 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. -- Alan Jackson -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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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] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Adge" wrote in message ... 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? |
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