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How do I edit text of a scanned document?
Graham,
I am experiencing the same problem (scanned documents sent to Word 2003 appear in Word with frames around each paragraph). Your CTL+A, then CTL+Q really helped. Tell me, what is OCR software? "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is one of the limitations of poor OCR software - it makes a dog's breakfast of the formatting. You would be better scanning it to a plain text file which cannot contain text boxes, and format the document yourself. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anup wrote: Suzanne I used OCR to scan a document to Word format. The problem I face now is that all the text appear in little "text boxes" which makes it difficult for me to edit. Is there any way I can prenvent the text in the many little text boxes. Thanks Anup "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you've scanned the text as a picture, you have to OCR it to make it editable. Your scanner probably came with an OCR app such as IRIS, TextBridge, or OmniPage. -- 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. "Scannerj" wrote in message ... I have scanned a document and it appears in word. Now I need to edit some of the text. Does anyone know how? |
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Graham,
I am experiencing the same problem (scanned documents sent to Word 2003 appear in Word with frames around each paragraph). Your CTL+A, then CTL+Q really helped. Tell me, what is OCR software? I am using an HP Scanjet Scanner 3970. MY HP Scanner (Smart Scan) never did this. "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is one of the limitations of poor OCR software - it makes a dog's breakfast of the formatting. You would be better scanning it to a plain text file which cannot contain text boxes, and format the document yourself. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anup wrote: Suzanne I used OCR to scan a document to Word format. The problem I face now is that all the text appear in little "text boxes" which makes it difficult for me to edit. Is there any way I can prenvent the text in the many little text boxes. Thanks Anup "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you've scanned the text as a picture, you have to OCR it to make it editable. Your scanner probably came with an OCR app such as IRIS, TextBridge, or OmniPage. -- 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. "Scannerj" wrote in message ... I have scanned a document and it appears in word. Now I need to edit some of the text. Does anyone know how? |
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OCR - Optical Character Reading ie the software that turns an image to
editable text. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Toody wrote: Graham, I am experiencing the same problem (scanned documents sent to Word 2003 appear in Word with frames around each paragraph). Your CTL+A, then CTL+Q really helped. Tell me, what is OCR software? I am using an HP Scanjet Scanner 3970. MY HP Scanner (Smart Scan) never did this. "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is one of the limitations of poor OCR software - it makes a dog's breakfast of the formatting. You would be better scanning it to a plain text file which cannot contain text boxes, and format the document yourself. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anup wrote: Suzanne I used OCR to scan a document to Word format. The problem I face now is that all the text appear in little "text boxes" which makes it difficult for me to edit. Is there any way I can prenvent the text in the many little text boxes. Thanks Anup "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you've scanned the text as a picture, you have to OCR it to make it editable. Your scanner probably came with an OCR app such as IRIS, TextBridge, or OmniPage. -- 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. "Scannerj" wrote in message ... I have scanned a document and it appears in word. Now I need to edit some of the text. Does anyone know how? |
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