Microsoft office 2007

[Sparky18]

Hey ive got microsoft office 2007 complete edition but i want to scan a document into microsoft word. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks

 

[breezer]

having a scanner would help.

i have an ancient scanner, it has an option to use something i cant remember the name of but it will scan and let word actualy edit the text.

read your scanner manual

(or copy / paste it as an image)

 

[Spark123]

Afaict it isn't possible to scan directly into word 2007, you need to scan and save it as a file then import it.

 

[naebothernoo]

Can you import it as a twain file source

 

[breezer]

thats the word, TWAIN

 

[Doc Lenny]

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Software - That's what you need!

 

[breezer]

well what is twain then? (oh i will go and search, no worries)

 

[Steve]

well what is twain then? (oh i will go and search, no worries)

technology with an interesting name.

AFAICR, when scanners were first released for sale they did a rush job finding drivers to work with windoze 95, and couldnt think of a name for them, so called the drivers TWAIN. Of course nowadays scanners are simply plug and play technology.

Back in the day I remember waiting 3 or 4 minutes for the computer to process the info from the scanner, during which time it would freeze up and be completely unresponsive! Then again I had a 133Mhz Pentium 1, 1.2GB HDD, 16 meg of RAM.

 

[breezer]

wow a pc that big

my first was a P100 with 8mb ram

 

[Sparky18]

Thanks for the replies and yea might as well copy and paste as a picture more quicker.

having a scanner would help.

It might just help ey

 

[Big_Nige]

Hey ive got microsoft office 2007 complete edition but i want to scan a document into microsoft word. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks

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[breezer]

bet he has done it now, he only asked LAST month