Using ScanSoft™ TextBridge® OCR (Converting Image Text to Text You Can Edit)

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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 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

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

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

3 Enter 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.)

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

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