How to scan using Windows®
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Quick links to other applications
ScanSoft® PaperPort® 9.0SE automatically recognizes many other applications on your computer and
creates a “working link” to them.
The Send To Bar at the bottom of the Desktop view shows icons of th ose linked applications.
To use a link, drag an item onto one of the icons to start the application represented by the icon. A typical use
of the Send To Bar is to select an item and then fax it.
This sample Send To Bar shows several applications with link s to PaperPort® 9.0SE.
If PaperPort® 9.0SE does not au tomatically recognize one of th e applications on your computer, y ou can
manually create a link usin g the New Program Link... command.
(See PaperPort® 9.0SE in the Documentation section on the CD-RO M for more information about cre ating
new links.)
ScanSoft® OmniPage® OCR lets you convert image text into text you can edit
ScanSoft® PaperPort® 9.0SE can quickly convert the text on a ScanSoft® PaperPort® 9.0SE item (which is
really just a picture of th e text) into text that you can edi t with a word processing applica tion.
PaperPort® 9.0SE uses the optical character reco gnition application ScanSoft® Om niPage® OCR, which
comes with PaperPort® 9.0SE.
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PaperPort® 9.0SE can use your preferred OCR appli cation if it is already on y our computer. You can conve rt
the entire item, or by using the Copy Text command, you can select only a portion of the text to convert.
Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts PaperPort® 9.0S E’s built-in OCR applicati on, or you
can use your own OCR applicat ion.
Importing items from other applications
In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort® 9.0SE in a variety of ways and convert
them to PaperPort® 9.0SE (MAX) files in several different ways:
■Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as Microsoft® Excel.
■Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows® Bitmap (BMP) or Tagged Image File Format
(TIFF).