Brother 8060P MFC-9060 Importing Items from Other Applications, Exporting Items in Other Formats

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PaperPort® can quickly convert the text on a PaperPort® item (which is really just a picture of the text) into text that you can edit with a word processing application. PaperPort® uses the optical character recognition application ScanSoft™ TextBridge, which comes with PaperPort ® — OR—PaperPort ® uses your application if it is already on your computer. You can convert the entire item, or by using the Copy As Text command, you can select only a portion of the text to convert.

Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts PaperPort® ’s built-in OCR application, or you can use your own OCR application.

Importing Items from Other Applications

In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort® in a variety of ways and convert them to PaperPort® (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 Tag Image File Format (TIFF).

Exporting Items in Other Formats

You can export or save PaperPort® items in several popular file formats. You can export formats BMP, PCX, DCX, JPG, TIF, PDF, PNG, FPX, HFX, or self-viewing. For example, you could create a file for an Internet Web site and export it as a JPEG file. Web pages often use JPEG files for displaying images.

Exporting an Image File

1Select the Export command from the File pull-down menu in the PaperPort® window. The Export ‘XXXXX’ As dialog box will be displayed.

2Select the drive and directory where you want to store the file.

3Enter the new file name and choose the file type or select a name from the File Name text box. (You can scroll through the Directories and File Name listing for prompting.)

4Select the OK button to save your file, or Cancel to return to the PaperPort® without saving it.