Dear Chris How annoying. This did happen to me once but the problem disappeared when I rebooted the computer and has not reappeared. Have you tried a reboot?
I have Office Pro but I do not think this should make a difference. You could copy your error message and search under Microsoft Knowledge base. In practice when I have had problems like this in the past with other software I have found a reinstall of the software solves the problem and can be quicker than researching solutions. Hope you can over come this annoyance. Sadly in my experience what works perfectly on one system can infuriatingly not always perform on another but Microsoft should be pretty standard and work in most cases. Someone else might be able to give more concrete advice. Regards David Griffith Original Message Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:58:07 +0100 From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Re Fast Scanner To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Eh? I can't send anything to Word. I did the correct steps, and I get an error and asks me to check that Word is installed, which it is. I have Office 2003 Standard. Thanks in advance. Chris Hallsworth BrailleNote mPower user ----- Original Message ----- From: "john snowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Re Fast Scanner Hi David. I agree with this. I used to use Cicero but found it not very good. At least with document imaging you can get a better scan when you've sent it to Word. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 7:48 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Re Fast Scanner > Dear Chris > > Microsoft Document Imaging does initially like all software scan as an > image. However you simply go to the Tools menu within Document Imaging and > select "send text to Word". This is the case in Office 2003 and I suspect > this is true in other versions. > > You wil get a message asking you to confirm you want to send all pages. > Simply press enter and Word will open with your scanned text. For some > reason this is always a htm document but as I say I simply use save as in > file menu to create a RTF version. You can use Jaws to read either the HTM > or RTF version just fine. > > So yes you can scan and OCR right now without buying software. What's > more > to the point is that the OCR is actually better than any of the software I > have bought in my experience. I have not used Open Book but have used > Kurzweil Omnipage and Text Bridge. > > The key I have found to using Document Imaging is to ensure that you > select > the scanner driver that came with your scanner, in my case Canon, rather > than the inbuilt generic driver that comes with Microsoft Document > Imaging. > The Microsoft driver can OCR just as well but features such as duplex > scanning are best managed within the drivers provided by your scanner. > > Let me know if you need help with this and I will look up what I did to > ensure this. > > Hope that helps. > > Regards > > David > > Previous Message > > 15 Sep 2007 18:20:28 -0500 > From: "Chris Feist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Re Fast Scanner > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > HI David. I'm not sure I understand. Does the document imaging of MS > Office do OCR or is it just a picture? I have a scanner, and I have MS > Office. So, could I scan right now with the software I have and it would > save it in a way I could read it with JAWS? I thought I'd have to have a > program like Open Book or something to do that, and especially to achieve > the minimal amount of errors. > > Chris Feist - The one and only! > > -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of David Griffith > > Sorry I realised that my message might be misunderstood. > > - To avoid confusion Document Imaging is found under Office Tools on Start > Menu then Programs then Microsoft Office. This is not a reference to the > Tools menus within actual programs. > > Previous message. > > Hello Al > > I am using Office 2003 with XP Pro and Jaws 8. I think Document Image > Scanning is available in other versions of Office under the Tools sub menu > but I cannot swear to it. It takes a little setting up but as I say I > have > found it to be the fastest and most accurate software once this is done. I > was very surprised. I have actually rescanned books I did originally with > Kurzweil in order to get the better accuracy. > > Regards > > David > Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
