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RonK - 17 Dec 2004 13:45 GMT

I thought that WORD was OCR capable? Do I need to purchase 3rd party
software to scan and OCR images?

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Bob Buckland ?:-\) - 17 Dec 2004 15:55 GMT

Hi Ron,

Word 2002 and 2003 have MS Office Document Imaging and Scanning
as an optional installation app. It includes a 'send to Word'
choice once the OCR is completed. The OCR capability may not
be as capable as some third party products but it is available.

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I thought that WORD was OCR capable? Do I need to purchase 3rd party
software to scan and OCR images? >>

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RonK - 17 Dec 2004 16:53 GMT

Thanks for the input, I will check to see it was installed as an option. If
it is not capable, then I will look at some third party software.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

> Hi Ron,
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> I thought that WORD was OCR capable? Do I need to purchase 3rd party
> software to scan and OCR images? >>

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Howard Kaikow - 17 Dec 2004 22:36 GMT

OmniPage Pro Office 14 is supposed to be best.

I purchased in July, but I've not had a chance to use.

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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.

> Thanks for the input, I will check to see it was installed as an option. If
> it is not capable, then I will look at some third party software.
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> > I thought that WORD was OCR capable? Do I need to purchase 3rd party
> > software to scan and OCR images? >>

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KlikThis - 19 Dec 2004 11:53 GMT

I use ABBYY FinePrint, its very sweet! It will even take pdf files & change
them to word if you want & you can edit them with ABBYY or the other program
you edit them with.
Hope this helps

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Keith - 19 Dec 2004 23:45 GMT

>Hi Ron,
>
>Word 2002 and 2003 have MS Office Document Imaging and Scanning
>as an optional installation app. It includes a 'send to Word'
>choice once the OCR is completed. The OCR capability may not
>be as capable as some third party products but it is available.

It's not. Unless the image is plain blocked text (no tables, etc) it will make a dog's breakfast of the conversion. And on my install (Office 2002) it will only read TIF files.

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stonechat - 09 Mar 2007 17:50 GMT

Yes I have Office 2003, it wants tif or mdi files

But it works surprisingly well

Bob

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