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Glenny Palmer
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by Glenny Palmer » Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:12 pm
Can any of youse clever dicks tell me HOW to get the text offa a scanned document please. I want to be able to edit & format it & print it out...just like it was WORD. I've got an archaic HP scanner printer & when I used the wizard it said I could use MS Word......so I did....but it's still locked up in its scanned state.
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Dave Smith
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by Dave Smith » Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:29 pm
G'day Glenny when you scan a document it is like taking a photocopy and unless you have a very good OCR program you are unable to edit it. Not much help A.
Sorry
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Glenny Palmer
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by Glenny Palmer » Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:40 pm
Ta anyway Dave. It's a story in a book, that I want to adapt. I'll keep trying. Hope you & Elaine are going goodo mate. Cheeers
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by Glenny Palmer » Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:35 pm
WHEEEHA! I dood it! All on my techno dill self. I googled 'how to' & you just gotta save your scanned doc as a TIFF file. Then you open this marvellous little gem called Microsoft Office Document Imaging & copy & paste into a Word file....YAY!

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Dave Smith
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by Dave Smith » Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:44 pm
Good on ya Glenny, looks like I'm gunna haveta update me 'putta.
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by Glenny Palmer » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:53 pm
Ta Dave. My pc is as old as anything & I think mine is Ms Word 2002! But under All Programs there's MS office Tools & then the little gem. U might have it in there Dave..........

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by Dave Smith » Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:53 pm
Cheers.
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