I was able to scan onto clipboard then into word -BUT- no text could
be edited except for those specified on tool bar. A useless
exercise. Lot of postings about this and I don't think that printer
software is the problem. "Adge" wrote:
Yes, I can understand that. We do that too for whole documents.
But a lot of our work involves an outer document with several long
citations from paper documents.
In the past, we've written the outer document in Word, inserting the
citations directly from the scanner as needed. It seems now we will
have to scan each potential citation source as a separate Word
document first, and then cut-and-paste. This is itself slow, it will
encourage unnecessary scanning, and inevitably a citation will have
been overlooked and will have to be scanned and saved and opened.
All of this wil massively increase our turnround time.
I'm wondering if there is a Visual Basic solution, but that will
cost money, as well.
--
Alan Jackson
:
I've never had to do a copy and paste. I scan my docs in and then
send it to Word with the scanner's built-in OCR software.
--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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I think there's a misunderstanding here. In older versions of Word
there was
an option to import TEXT from a scanner. That seems to have
vanished completely. All the replies seem to expect me to scan in
my text separately
to some other program and then copy-and-paste into Word - this is
impossibly
time consuming. There must be a better way.
--
Alan Jackson
:
I was able in word 2003 to scan directly into it from my scanner.
Now the scanner software does not list word as an option because
it is 2007. My scanner is an hp 6310 all-in-one. Is there
anything I can do from the word
side or am I at the mercy of HP?