On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:12:05 -0800, nasser jamal
<nasserjamal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> Thanks for the support, yes, but it became an Adobe Acrobat, and there you
> can not edit it.
As I explained in a earlier message, you can not just send a scanned
image to a word processing program. It's essentially a *picture* of
the text, not the text itself, and it's not editable.
If you want to edit the text, you need Optical Character Recognition
(usually abbreviated OCR) software. That kind of software look at the
picture, recognizes characters, and turns it into editable text.
There are several OCR products available: OmniPage and Abbyy Fine
reader are two well-known ones. Scanners often come with "Lite"
versions of such software, and if you look around, you may find that
you already have such a product.
> "Bob" wrote:
>
> > Have you tried to send the scan to a word processing program?
> >
> > "nasser jamal" <nasserjamal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:687EF39D-09D3-4CCC-AA1A-98D115A4C546@microsoft.com...
> > >
> > > -- Dear members,
> > > I badly need 3 in one (scanner, printer and copier) with an OCR (optical
> > > character recognition) or ReadIRIS, which brand and model would you
> > > recommend, an OCR is a must for my work.
> > > The printer I have now is an HP1215 PSC three in one, this model does not
> > > carry out OCR.
> > >
> > > nasser
> >
> >
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup
