Scanning a document into Word 2007

[Guest]

Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes
me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software.
The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi
step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a
scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an
unnecessary waste of time.

I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in
Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word
2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait
for the software to change from one version to the other.

Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I
am using Vista Ultimate.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word
to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor
registry change for the version you don't want as default - see
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details.
Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by
default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or
directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve.

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[Guest]

Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still
creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document
is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that
need to be included with the scanned pages.

This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled
separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate
document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document
the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003.

If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the
document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I
do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my
students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including
computer courses.

Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for
what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have
to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else.

If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document
imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to
scan directly into a word document.

Thanks for trying.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003
when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to
Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version).

If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to
save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able
to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they
may not wish to do).

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[Guest]

I understand and I save documents in Word 97-2003. I am not asking for a
registry hack and I am not asking how to save documents. I am requesting
that the scan directly into Word 2007 be implemented as it was in previous
versions.

Thank you

 

[Graham Mayor]

You also complained about the delay when switching between versions!
The scanning I can do nothing about, but the delay is addressed in the link.

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[Guest]

I understand and I save documents in Word 97-2003. I am not asking for a
registry hack and I am not asking how to save documents. I am requesting
that the scan directly into Word 2007 be implemented as it was in previous
versions.

Thank you

 

[Guest]

I am with you idotrix. I also am a College instructor & I am VERY
dissapointed that I can NOT scan directly into WORD. Seems to be going
backwards with this new development. I did not keep my older version of WORD,
so I am stuck!

 

[Guest]

Please help us get back the capability to scan DIRECTLY into WORD again!

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Does this help?

http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/2007/08/23/insert-from-camera-or-scanner-in-word-2007/

 

[Graham Mayor]

Why do you think I would have any ability to do this? Neither I nor anyone
corresponding here is employed by Microsoft. It is a user peer group.
However, fellow MVP Herb Tyson has discovered that the ancient WordBasic
command that called the Scanner dialog is still present in Word and can be
called by the macro on the web page for which he has posted a link. You can
add the macro to the QAT.

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