Dear Cathy, Are you talking about the "Import from Scanner" in Microsoft Office Word Tools? Where else are you referring to "hidden in Microsoft Office Tools"? Please be more specific. Thank you Cathy. Sally -----Original Message----- From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SP] Scan to edit text Hi Harold, If you have Microsoft Office you'll find an OCR scanning facility hidden in that. I found it because I was so frustrated with the OCR software that came with my Epson scanner. Otherwise I'm very happy with my Epson 2400 photo which I got mainly for photo and slide scanning. The Epson OCR software couldn't recognise the orientation of the page so you couldn't lay a book on the screen and do both pages but had to place it so the text was the right way up. The Office scanner hidden in Microsoft Office Tools did quite a good job. I've now got hold of Omnipage and prefer that. Cheers, Cathy The At 09:18 8/03/2004 -0600, you wrote: >I've had good luck in the past with my OmniPage, but when I bought my new >computer with XP I lost the ability to scan text completely. I went to the >HP site and the OmniPage site for upgraded drivers, but it didn't help any. >I'm now only able to scan in .tiff mode and can't do any editing. Windows >completely eliminated my use of OCR and just after I had bought OmniPage >too!! >When I could scan, I found that placing a sheet of white paper behind >newsprint gave me the best recognition. I hadn't tried it with magazines. >It also worked well with old wills and other documents in my genealogy. >But, yes, handwritten documents are best with a graphic scan. >Harold Williams >[email protected] > > Give me a sense of humor, Lord, > Give me the grace to see a joke, > To get some humor out of life, > And pass it on to other folk.

Under my Start Programs I found Microsoft Office Tools. Amongst these is Microsoft Office Document Imaging and Microsoft Office Document Scanning. You can work from a tif image of a text (I haven't tried this - but that's what the HELP says) or scan the text direct. I don't know which versions of Office they come with. I have Microsoft Office XP Professional with Publisher Cheers, Cathy At 04:21 9/03/2004 -0800, you wrote: >Dear Cathy, >Are you talking about the "Import from Scanner" in Microsoft Office Word >Tools? Where else are you referring to "hidden in Microsoft Office Tools"? >Please be more specific. Thank you Cathy. > >Sally > >-----Original Message----- >From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:49 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [SP] Scan to edit text > >Hi Harold, > >If you have Microsoft Office you'll find an OCR scanning facility hidden in >that. > >I found it because I was so frustrated with the OCR software that came with >my Epson scanner. Otherwise I'm very happy with my Epson 2400 photo which >I got mainly for photo and slide scanning. >The Epson OCR software couldn't recognise the orientation of the page so >you couldn't lay a book on the screen and do both pages but had to place it >so the text was the right way up. > >The Office scanner hidden in Microsoft Office Tools did quite a good job. > >I've now got hold of Omnipage and prefer that. > >Cheers, >Cathy

Fantastic! I tried that program and it works marvelously... now I am looking around the rest of the stuff in that package to see what I have been missing. Thank you, Cathy, for finding that for us! Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Pinner" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:46 AM Subject: RE: [SP] Scan to edit text > Under my Start Programs I found Microsoft Office Tools. > > Amongst these is Microsoft Office Document Imaging and Microsoft Office > Document Scanning. You can work from a tif image of a text (I haven't tried > this - but that's what the HELP says) or scan the text direct. > I don't know which versions of Office they come with. > > I have Microsoft Office XP Professional with Publisher > > Cheers, > Cathy >