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HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS
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ScanSoft® TextBridge® OCR lets you convert image text into text you can edit
ScanSoft® PaperPort® can quickly convert the text on a ScanSoft®
PaperPort® item (which is really just a picture of the text) into text that
you can edit with a word proce ssing application.
PaperPort® uses the optical character recognition ap plication
ScanSoft® TextBridge®, which comes with PaperPort®
—OR—
PaperPort® can use your prefered OCR application if it is already on
your computer. You can convert the entire it em, or by using the Copy
Text command, you can select only a portion of the text to convert.
Dragging an item onto a wor d-processing link icon starts
PaperPort®’s built-in OCR application, or you can use y our own
OCR application.
You can Import items from other applications
In addition to scanning items, you can bring items i nto 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 othe r file formats, such as Win dows® Bitmap
(BMP) or Tag Image File Format (TIFF).