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About Richard Stephens
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I have used word up to advanced, including Macros, very limited VBA. Basic to advanced questions are welcome. Currently using Word 2003 and Word Xp but will try to recollect for earlier editions.

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Teaching and business training for the last 10 years as well as running my own small business.

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Microsoft Word - scaner using readiris with ocr

Expert: Richard Stephens - 7/5/2009

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QUESTION: I am using windows vista on a hp a6110n and hp psc 750. I can copy anything inn picture form from the scanner but cannot coppy a document or letter which I need to edit or add to. Can you help me? It appears the scanner goes to something called readiris and I have to transfer any scanned item to the "picture' section of vista. I cannot edit a picture. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
leonardo
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ANSWER: leonardo

You need an OCR program to get editable text. see if your scanner has ocr software, if you don't have one have a look at this site

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/10/01/Free-OCR-software_3F00_-You-...

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QUESTION: I have ocr and adobe I can even at time bring up a copy of some work from the scanner, but it is in the readiris and I cannot copy it to any of my word programs. Please note that I am a compputer dummy. Thanks for any and all help.
Leonard

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Leonard

I haven't used readiris so this is only a guess. Make sure that you save the file with as a text editable file ie with the txt or doc extension from ReadIris, you can then open the file in Word and copy and paste from there. If that doesn't work I would suggest trying the readiris forum here

http://ecm.irislink.com/c2-1-17/I-R-I-S--Solutions---Experts---Homepage.aspx

Richard

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