Optical Character Recognition

[Jack]

I have an HP scanjet 4100C scanner which automatically
gave me the choice to have scanned text documents scanned
with optical character recognition when using Windows98.
When I tried to install the scanner and OCR software on
my new computer with Windows XP Home Edition, a message
appeared telling me the software was "not supported."

Now that I am trying to edit some text documents, I am
highly irritated at not finding a way to make a scanned
document be saved in a format that I can edit with a word
processing program.

Apparently XP Home does not come with OCR capability
since their are no entries in the help and support data
base on this topic. Would appreciate knowing what kind
of "aftermarket" OCR software I can successfully download
to XP if there is, indeed, no support built in.

Thanks for any suggestions.......Jack

 

[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
I have an HP scanjet 4100C scanner which automatically
gave me the choice to have scanned text documents scanned
with optical character recognition when using Windows98.
When I tried to install the scanner and OCR software on
my new computer with Windows XP Home Edition, a message
appeared telling me the software was "not supported."

Now that I am trying to edit some text documents, I am
highly irritated at not finding a way to make a scanned
document be saved in a format that I can edit with a word
processing program.

Apparently XP Home does not come with OCR capability
since their are no entries in the help and support data
base on this topic. Would appreciate knowing what kind
of "aftermarket" OCR software I can successfully download
to XP if there is, indeed, no support built in.

Thanks for any suggestions.......Jack
.

The OCR software that was bundled with the scanner is
apparently not compatible with XP. This has nothing to do
with whether XP "supports" OCR or not. You need to find
an updated version of the OCR software that is compatible
with XP. You might also want to look up "compatibility" in
Help and Support for further guidance.