Audrey, The way PaperPort works is this: a) Scan the printed page as you would a photo or anything else b) Then drag the scan image to the Word icon in the window c) the Word application opens with your document just as edit-able & saveable as if you typed it. d) With multi-pages you may have to copy & paste to merge everything into 1 doc --Jim & Bev are right...The buzzword descriptor is OCR for Optical Character Recognition...S/W like OmniPage Pro can even do graphics or columns of #'s into Excel for example. Dave NiteOwl226@aol.com wrote: > > << Saving it as a Word document saves it as if it were typed from scratch. > If you need some help -- I'd be more than willing to help. >> > > I recently received 3 scanned pages. I would like to put the data into my > Family Tree program but haven't had the time to retype it all in. Can you > tell me how to save it as text....I didn't even know you could do that and > I've been on computers since the 1970's. > > Audrey > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi