Copy / Paste from Word

[Bicky]

This is probably stupid ! I have scanned a document into Word, saved it as a
Word document, I cannot find a way of editing this document or use the Copy /
Paste facility. I can print it out - that is all. Any ideas please.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

When you scan a document, you are scanning an image of the document and
saving it. It's like a photograph - you cannot edit or change it. In order
to extract text from the document you would need to use an OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) program to read the scanned image and extract text.
Check your scanner documentation to see if such was provided with your
scanner.

 

[Bicky]

Richard - thank you - problem solved. i have a Lexmark 5470. It is all in
there. I did say that I was stupid !!

When you scan a document, you are scanning an image of the document and
saving it. It's like a photograph - you cannot edit or change it. In order
to extract text from the document you would need to use an OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) program to read the scanned image and extract text.
Check your scanner documentation to see if such was provided with your
scanner.

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This is probably stupid ! I have scanned a document into Word, saved it as
a
Word document, I cannot find a way of editing this document or use the
Copy /
Paste facility. I can print it out - that is all. Any ideas please.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

I'm glad I was able to help you find what you needed.

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Richard - thank you - problem solved. i have a Lexmark 5470. It is all in
there. I did say that I was stupid !!

When you scan a document, you are scanning an image of the document and
saving it. It's like a photograph - you cannot edit or change it. In
order
to extract text from the document you would need to use an OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) program to read the scanned image and extract
text.
Check your scanner documentation to see if such was provided with your
scanner.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/

This is probably stupid ! I have scanned a document into Word, saved it
as
a
Word document, I cannot find a way of editing this document or use the
Copy /
Paste facility. I can print it out - that is all. Any ideas please.