Microsoft Office Document Scanning 2007
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If you are a Windows user and already have Microsoft Office XP through 2007, chances are you already have the ability to OCR documents to get the text out of them. It’s called Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI).
May need to tun up volume. If you do not see Office Tools or Office Document Scanning when trying to scan a document in Office 2007. This short tutorial shows how you can download and install Microsoft office document imaging to add the feature to the latest version of Office 2010.
I’m not going to lie, what I am about to show you is not exactly the best way to OCR documents. If you have software that came with your scanner, I’d stick to that. However, if you don’t already have OCR software and all you want to do is get some text out of an image, the software you already have is better than nothing at all. Finding Microsoft Office Document Imaging First, you want to check to see if you already have it installed. In Office 2007, go to Start Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Tools, and you should see Microsoft Office Document Imaging.
If you don’t see it there, never fear. It’s an optional part of the Office install. In Control Panel, go to Add/Remove Programs, select Microsoft Office, click Change, and then select add features. You will find MODI under Microsoft Office Tools. Install it and you should be good to go.
Ah Microsoft, I Love You It probably won’t surprise you to learn that Microsoft Office Document Imaging will not import PDFs (why would they support an Adobe product?!). It will only import TIFFs and Microsoft’s own Microsoft Document Imaging format (.MDI). In this example, I’m going to assume that we want to get the text out of a PDF that has not been OCR’ed already. Sure you could use MODI to scan a document in, but I figure if you have the hardcopy document and a scanner, you’d probably just use the scanner’s software anyways. Copying A PDF In Since we can’t actually import a PDF, we’re going to do some copy & paste magic. Open up your PDF in Acrobat Reader or whatever PDF reader you are using and either Select All or Select just the portion you want to OCR. Then hit Copy.
(By the way, that’s my picture of a Fung Wah bus that made it into New York Magazine. Aren’t you proud of me?). Then switch to MODI, and you would think you would go Edit Paste right?
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Of course not! This is Microsoft! Instead go to Page and then Paste Page. Voila, the image you just copied is now in Microsoft Office Document Imaging. Saving The Text So now that you have the image in MODI, what do you do with it?
To OCR the text, go Tools and then Recognize Text Using OCR. You can then save it as a TIF (though I understand that only MODI can read that TIF), or MDI. Since that is more than a little useless, I’m going to cover sending the text to Word. To send the text (and graphics, if you’d like) go up to Tools and then Send Text to Word. The OCR’ed text will then appear in a Word document with all the images at the bottom, if you checked the “Maintain Pictures in Output” box.
So, again, this is not the greatest OCR process in the whole world, but hey. If you’re a Windows user you probably already have Office, so it’s good to know what is available if you ever need it.
Thank you so much for your very thorough article. It was very comprehensive and has provided me a very helpful direction for several problems with editing photos from my camera phone. Being notably smart phone (and OCR)illiterate was shocked find myself the owner of an android phone with camera.
Although following the camera instructions included with the phone my first photo efforts were disappointing. At a total loss as to how to process pics for better reception.
As a seasoned photographer, hoped my new smart phone camera would be fun. Having spend HOURS of my precious weekend time researching and trying to find the ‘burst’ collection of pictures I thought I took last evening discouraged to discover that they are only single ‘snap shots’ and that my photo editor software really doesn’t do much for them. Will redirect my energies in your suggested directions: already owned printer/scanner software.
Microsoft Office Document Scanning Does Not Support This Type Of Device
Thanks, I've already run the diagnostics but there was no problem. I wasn't in the office when the computer 'expert' came so unfortunately I don't know what he did. Just cleaned up the hard drive. Not impressed with some of the stuff I had to clean up on my computer when I came in on Monday.
I was hoping there was an easy answer. I tried restarting my computer, reinstalled Office Document Imaging as well as the scanner driver software but to no avail. The scanner is the Epson GT-1500 if that helps any.