acquire text from scanner

[Philip Coulling]

In Word 97, to scan a document and convert it to text, one
selects File | Acquire Text. Can anyone tell me how to do
this in Word 2000? (I have Office 2000 Professional.)
Thanks.

 

[lostinspace]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Coulling" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: acquire text from scanner

In Word 97, to scan a document and convert it to text, one
selects File | Acquire Text. Can anyone tell me how to do
this in Word 2000? (I have Office 2000 Professional.)
Thanks.

I have not found a way in over two years :-(
The only similar option in 2000 is:
Insert/Picture

I do plenty of scanning and use WordPad as a software, which my OCR software
recognizes. After saving the file as Word 6.0 I then close WordPad and open
in Word.
On my end it is entirely possible these problems are the result of my older
scanner (1996) even though I use the most recent driver available.

Adobe Acrobat 5.0 recognizes the scanner and other new software's do also.
Just not Word.

You might try the Microsoft imaging software. I did not care for the older
versions and am unable to find it in XP.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Coulling" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: acquire text from scanner

That's going to depend on how well the scanner driver was installed. It
might need to be reinstalled.

You might try the Microsoft imaging software. I did not care for the
older versions and am unable to find it in XP.

PhotoEdit is not a default install in Office XP. You can add it by running
setup. Office XP and later include scanning tools

Start > Programs > Microsoft Office Tools > Microsoft Office Document
Scanning [and Imaging]

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