Cannot edit on a copied word document:

[Guest]

Hello everyone,
I scan a document and copy and paste it into words but i cannot do any
editing on the document, when I click on the area to make the change it bring
up a border around the entire doc, any suggestion will be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

The scanner creates a picture of a document... you could edit it with a
picture editor, but that's not terribly useful if you want to edit text. For
that, you need to use OCR (optical character recognition) to convert the
scanned image into text. Microsoft Office Document Imaging (available in
Office, but I'm not sure if it's installed by default) can do this, and
there might be a utility that came with your scanner that does it as well.

 

[Graham Mayor]

I'm not sure if it's installed by default

It isn't

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