HI Beth As someone already suggested, I think, you need an OCR program to get a text document that you can edit, which you cannot do with a regular scan or a PDF file. I checked and your printer has the "Iris OCR" program as part of its software. If you have an on-line manual, look up OCR to see how it works I have found that OCR software has improved immensely over the years. Bob Wilson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Bowling" <bodad@lavabit.com> To: <computers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Scanning/copy and paste : : : I have Windows XP Home, and HP psc2210 all-in-one. When I scan a document : to "Word" and save it in "My Documents" I then cannot copy and paste from : that scanned/filed document. The file is NOT marked "read only". : : Does anyone know how to be able to edit/copy and paste from that filled : document? : : I would really appreciate any help. I have asked HP but haven't heard from : the yet...and I really need to do a little work on a few documents. : : Thanks for any help. : Beth B : : : : : : ::-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: : : Take pity on Digest subscribers and remember to SNIP when replying. : ::-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: : : : : : ------------------------------- : To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message :

Many thanks to each of you....Lynn, Kevin, Bob, Nivard, Robert...and all the rest of you...for your answers to my problem with scanning/copy and paste. I have learned so much from all your information...I had no idea that a plain "scan" was really a "picture"...and so must be handled in a different way. I was finally able to "Editable Scan" and select portions of the document to share with others. This has been a very interesting time, reading all that you sent as well as the links that you sent. HP finally answered my queries and told me to do all kinds of things to "update" my softwear....this printer is about five years old...but the bottom line is that they do not have an update for it. And in the big middle of uninstalling and reinstalling the original softwear and using their "scrubber"...I mistakenly let Microsoft download IE-8...which I had no intention of doing. And now, my "HP Director" does not work with IE-8...just as it did not work with IE-7...but HP did a patch for that problem. There is one work-around I found on the net, but it is a bit of a bother to do it every time I want to scan. No patch for IE-8...but they say "maybe"....why don't you buy a new printer!!!!! The one you have is obsolete and my computer is also obsolete! I replied that I guess I am obsolete too, so I just better keep what I have! Thanks again for taking the time to share your knowledge and thoughts...I really have made progress with all your help. "Obsolete Beth"