[JoAnn Paules]

Yeah. But don't be too upset if the results aren't quite perfect. You still
have to proof-read the document - carefully! Be becomes he; H becomes II;
all kinds of screwy things can (and will) show up.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"Henry" wrote in message
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Thank you JoAnn and Bob for your very helpful answers.

Your replies led me to call Epson Scanners. They told me I had the OCR
program on my CD. I didn't know that. It is called ABBYY Fine Reader OCR.
It
works with the Epson just as Bob mentioned.

I have now managed to scan a document and pass it into Word where I am
able
to change it and make entries into it. Success!

I would be lost without Microsoft Communities & its very knowledgable
MVPs.

HenryA


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Henry,

How old is the Epson scanner and does it have a CD with it? Many of the
Epson scanners come with an Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) software package for doing what your friend's does. Epson had one
of their own, 'Epson TWAIN Scanning', but also have
packaged 'AAbby Fine Reader' and 'NewSoft OCR'. In some cases they're
listed in the Start=Programs menu in others you have to run
the Epson printer/scanner 'monitoring' package to get to them
automatically through the buttons on the scanner.

MS Office has an optional installation item, Microsoft Office Document
Imaging and Scanning that includes an OCR capability, but
it's not always as fully featured as those listed above or other 3rd
party ones such as some of the ones from
http://nuance.com/imaging . The Microsoft Office choice can usually be
added by going to the Microsoft Office listing in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel and changing to add that advanced
feature in by setting it to 'Run from my computer' status.
It should then be available in Windows under
Start=Programs=Microsoft Office=Microsoft Office tools

FWIW, the IRS forms are available in fill-in capable PDF files.
If you start from http://irs.gov/sitemap
you may eventually find them through their http://fedforms.gov site.

The organization of the forms seems to be a bit clearer at
http://unclefed.com/IRS-Forms/ (a site by a private company 'National
Tax Service') with 2007 forms at
http://unclefed.com/IRS-Forms/2007/indvlforms.html In either source, you
can type on the form and save it/print it from the Adobe
PDF viewer app, which may be easier for you than trying to create the
same thing in Word

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"Henry" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who has a Hewlett Packard scanner. This scanner will scan
a paper document and output the scan directly into Word.
The document in Word is completely usable. Any part of it can be written
or altered or deleted. Unfortunately, my Epson scanner does
not have this capability. I was hopingthat Word did have such a
capability.

HenryA
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*