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| Thread ID: 74513 | 2006-11-25 08:08:00 | Two Scanning Questions. | Poppa John (284) | Press F1 |
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| 502023 | 2006-11-27 08:16:00 | Sorry PJ, I'm still shaking after climbing up a ladder that was on the deck of a truck to reconnect with a line tap some loose wires on a wonky pole!! Don't know how you would stitch them together, unless it could be done in a pdf program.You can save them as pdf's, I think, with the scanner program. |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 502024 | 2006-11-27 21:08:00 | If they are all word pages, open new document and copy and paste each page into the new document. Will this work. | Slim (4633) | ||
| 502025 | 2006-11-28 04:17:00 | By the sound of it, they are not Word pages though? I suspect they are simply an image (scanned photo) of the original? Otherwise they would not look "grainy". They need to be OCR'd basically, which should turn them into text. It sounds like you are missing that step, hence the pages of "code" that you were getting which is what an image file opened as a word document would look like. I hate to think what file size those scanned images are.... Just downloading a copy of Mirascan 4 manual now, to see if it even has an OCR function. But the server has constipation. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 502026 | 2006-11-28 04:28:00 | Nothing in the manual downloaded for the Mirascan software suggests that it has OCR capabilities within the program, so perhaps you need an OCR application that will use the scanner, but not through Mirascan? | godfather (25) | ||
| 502027 | 2006-11-28 04:47:00 | Just read it again carefully PJ, and although it says that the scanner can be used for OCR, it appears to be referring to another program that would use the scanner. Nowhere does it have a reference to using Mirascan for OCR. So trying to do what you are doing appears akin to trying to open a can of beans with a roll of sellotape. If you want editable pages, then use an OCR program. A free one is here: http://www.simpleocr.com/ SimpleOCR Freeware. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 502028 | 2006-11-28 09:07:00 | gf... Thankyou for that link, it looks promising. especially the handwriting part. All my writing is 'pencil on paper' & comes from brain to hand in a rush. Whether this programme could handle my scribble or not remains to be seen. I WILL investigate it tomorrow. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
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