 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
| HomeDiscussionsAccessExcelInfoPathOutlookPowerPointPublisherWordDirectoryUser Groups Related Topics Outlook ExpressInternet ExplorerWindowsMS Server ProductsMore Topics ... |
MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / November 2005I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word.
I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word. It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification Unless you run a scanned image through special optical character recognition software, all you have is a picture of text, not text. You can manipulate it the same way you can other pictures, but you can't cut the picture apart (the individual letters and words in the picture) and change their relationship to each other. Long way of saying you need to use the OCR software that came with your scanner or that built into later editions of Word.  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. >I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word. > > It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification Yeah, some OCR scanning just isn't that great. The best you can do is get everything out of the text boxes first, and go from there. ************ Anne Troy VBA Project Manager www.OfficeArticles.com >I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word. > > It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification That's OCR software for you - it tends to create a dog's breakfast of formatting. Some applications are much worse than others. Microsoft's Office Document Imaging will kill all the formatting and produce just the text, or you could scan to plain text and reformat in Word - or you could buy better OCR software. It doesn't get any better than Finereader - but even that isn't perfect. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > I scanned a document and can't control formatting in Word. > > It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.