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Topic: scan to saved doc. question |
Ron Victoria
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Posted 5 Oct 2007 1:32 pm |
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I am trying to scan a blank form and get it into word so I can use it as a template for future lesson plans. The first few times it went in as a jpeg which didn't help. I clicked b/w copy and told it to save it. For some reason, a few lines are missing when it goes. If I scan it and email it to myself, could the doc be opened and edited? I may have to just download it at school on a memory stick and bring it home.
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 5 Oct 2007 8:16 pm
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No. What you're doing is creating an image of the document. What needs to be done is a conversion from pdf to a Word document. So, if you have Acrobat, save the scan as a pdf, then open the file in Acrobat. Choose File > Save As. In the Save As dialog box, choose Microsoft Word Document from the pop-up menu.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 6 Oct 2007 2:08 am
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When you scan a document that you want to import to MS Word, you need an "OCR" program (Optical Character Recongnition) to process and convert the scanned document into a useable form by the Wordprocessor program. Some scanners (or all in one's) come wth a basic OCR program, however the basic programs will OCR the document but there most likely will be errors in the conversion. You need a better OCR program to get a more accurate OCR conversion.
If you scan the document as a jpg (or some other graphic form), you can place that in the wordprocessor but you will not be able to modify the document. |
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