Please help with scanning and editing?

fifitrix123

Hi
I have a MP2I 10 scanner and I usually am sort of ok with it but today I have scanned a letter and I just want to edit it to change a date but when I scan it in I am having trouble opening it where I normally do?

I usually scan to my documents and then attach to emails etc but it is not working.

I was told to scan OCR which would mean I can edit the letter but it keeps opening with Windows photo live where I can't do anything with it although I have scanned as bw doc and ocr doc but still nothing.

Can someone please help as I am sure I am being an idiot! :mad:

tomthered

are you not able to choose what application to open it with?. Other way is to scan the letter and use Paint program to erase the offending date and use text box function and same text to reinsert the date you want

moonrakerz

Just to clarify - do you actually have OCR software which will "read" the scanned picture ?
If you don't have that the scanner will just produce something in jpeg or bitmap which you cannot edit in Word.

fifitrix123

Hi Chaps
Thanks for the reply, I kept my post on screen and didn't realise I had replies!
When I click to scan I do have a choice for OCR scanning which I thought enabled me to change things but I cannot work out how to do it at all!

culpepper

As far as I remember with ocr scanning, you scan it with the 'OCR' option and then must tell your scanning program that you want to interpret the ocr capture as text.There must be some sort of option to do that. OCR stands for optical character recognition so it stands to reason that it must have that facility. I haven't done one for ages but remember scanning and it coming out as an image like a photo and then in a second pane on the screen,it converted to a text document when asked .
You an get free OCR software so that might be worth looking into if your present software isn't very intuitive.

fifitrix123

thanks culpepper. I will have to have another go and if that fails I will have to ask if I can send it via mail to someone to hav a go for me as I am desperate to get it done asap!

fifitrix123

As above I have done it and printed it!

Not in the programme I wanted it to open as it didn't give me the option but I have done it anyway so thanks to all who helped! :beer: