edit document

[Tom]

Cannot edit word document after scanning it . I have saved it as a tiff, jpg,
text, doc and still cannot edit it. Have tried document imaging and it comes
up all scrambled instead of likeness of document. I need to save a lot of
documents that i can edit and send as e-mails or faxes.

 

[DL]

You need to scan using OCR, in order to be avilable to edit

 

[Tom]

Have used Microsoft Office Document Imaging that uses OCR, but it comes out
scrambled.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Did you scan it in as a .tif and convert that with OCR?

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

 

[Tom]

When using Microsoft Office Document Imaging scan option it scans as a tif
and automatically runs OCR on the document. When I open the document with
Word 2003 it comes up all scrambled with numbers, symbols and letters making
it useless.

Did you scan it in as a .tif and convert that with OCR?

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

Have used Microsoft Office Document Imaging that uses OCR, but it comes
out
scrambled.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

When using Microsoft Office Document Imaging scan option it scans as a tif
and automatically runs OCR on the document. When I open the document with
Word 2003 it comes up all scrambled with numbers, symbols and letters
making
it useless.

I can't see your original, but if it is less than ideal and/or the scan
is not good, you get trash. OCR can only guess with a less than perfect
scan. The less perfect the original and the scan the less perfect the
results. How does that tif look if you open in up in a image viewer? Are
the letters all clear, even spacing few if any strange lines etc.?

 

[Tom]

When viewing in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer the document is perfect.

 

[Bob I]

It may "look perfect" to you but the MODI OCR is not going to do well
with tables, extraneous lines and other non-text features. Also if
characters are less than perfectly formed they will get mis-recognized.
If you need really GOOD OCR capabilities, you will need to get some 3rd
party software like OmniPage.