document imaging send to .doc

[jsloan1223]

Hello, I want to be able to use document imaging to scan in a document and
then save it to a .doc file. Is there a way to do this and bypass saving it
as htm first??

Thanks in advance!
Jocelyn

 

[jsloan1223]

I should clarify: I want to scan in a text document (usually several pages),
do OCR on it and then save it as a .doc file and NOT htm. Is there a
registry setting or something we can change to have it use .doc as default
instead of .htm?

 

[db]

Word has the converter
to import the htm after
MDI makes it. Once
opened in Word it can be
saved as a doc.

Another option is that
you can select all, right
click on the blocked data
and you will get the "send
text to word" option.

the registry modification
you mentioned is none existant
because MDI was programmed to
save in a tif file format or
htm.

however, you could change the registry
setting so that htm files are opened
by word. but i think this would
conflict with the browsers.

- db
I should clarify: I want to scan in a text document (usually several pages),
do OCR on it and then save it as a .doc file and NOT htm. Is there a
registry setting or something we can change to have it use .doc as default
instead of .htm?

 

[jsloan1223]

The problem is not that I can't open the htm files. The problem is that I
don't want to have a bunch of htm files cluttering up my folders, because
when they get emailed to someone else for editing, they open in IE: not very
nice for editing. The document imaging program does a fairly decent job with
the text, but I want them as .DOC files, not HTM. And I don't want to jump
through hoops to get it done.

Sigh. Maybe I just have to invest some bucks into "real" ocr software.

Jocelyn

 

[db]

you can htm files in explorer
by highlighting the filename,
press f2 or right click and
simply change the extension from
htm to doc.

also, htm is a convenient method
for people without the word program
to open these types of documents
with the browser, as a convenience.

however, the file extension default
for "htm" can be changed from i.e. to
word. the other extension of "html"
can stay for the browsers. the extensions
can be modified in file types under
folder options in windows explorer.

if by chance there is a webpage on the
net with an extension of htm, then
word will open it just as well. However
many sites use asp, html and others. But
htm is basically reserved for word.

- db
The problem is not that I can't open the htm files. The problem is that I
don't want to have a bunch of htm files cluttering up my folders, because
when they get emailed to someone else for editing, they open in IE: not very
nice for editing. The document imaging program does a fairly decent job with
the text, but I want them as .DOC files, not HTM. And I don't want to jump
through hoops to get it done.

Sigh. Maybe I just have to invest some bucks into "real" ocr software.

Jocelyn