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USING PAPERPORT
®
AND TEXTBRIDGE
Links to Many Other Applications
PaperPort® automatically recognizes many other applications on your
computer and creates a “working link” to them. The Link Bar at the bottom
of Desktop view shows icons of those 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 Link Bar is to select an item and then fax it.
This sample Link Bar shows several applications with links to PaperPort®.
If PaperPort® does not automatically recognize one of the applications on
your computer, you can manually create a link using the Create New
Link command. (See PaperPort® Help for more information about
creating new links.)
Using ScanSoft™ TextBridge® OCR(Converting Image Text to Text You Can Edit)
Software by: ScanSoft™
TextBridge® OCR is automatically installed when you install PaperPort®
on your computer.
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 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.