Microsoft Document Scanning is a little hard to find. If you have Office then you will find it on the start menu Programs list buried under Microsoft Office and then under the Tools Menu. I normally copy the shortcut from here to somewhere more convenient.
The program needs a little setting up. You will need to check that your scanner is selected under the scanner button and you should tab through all the options to check that they are set as you want them. The good news is that the program is 100% completely accessible so you will not have any problems tabbing to all the options. You have the option of using the inbuilt Microsoft scanner driver interface or using the scanner interface provided by your scanner Personally I use the interface provided by my scanner as it has more features . One tip, if you have a duplex scanner then let your scanner driver take care of double sided scanning and do not tick this option in Microsoft Document Scanning. Ticking this option in MDS will mean that you will be prompted to turn pages over and scan pages twice. A duplex scanner will not need you to do this. Once you have options set up as you want them you simply select the scan button. After scanning Microsoft Document Scanning will automatically load the scan into the Microsoft Document Imaging program. Under the Tools menu of Microsoft Document Imaging you select the "Send text to Word" menu. You will then need to press enter to clear the dialogue box asking you to confirm you want all pages sent. Microsoft Word will then open with your scanned text. A slight oddity is that this is in a web htm format. I normally save at RTF or Text file. Jaws seems to read better in these file types. It's a little clunky but the payoff is the high quality OCR performance. As I say on my PC it easily outperforms programs like Kurzweil which whilst having a superior interface simply do not provide the same level of OCR recognition so I am happy to put up with the interface to get this result. Regards David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Justice Sent: Thursday, 13 March 2008 22:01 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] OPEN BOOK VERSION 8 PROBLEM, RESPONSE TO RICK David, I'd like to know more about Document Scanning. Can you tell me about it, how to get to it and what I need? John Justice ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] OPEN BOOK VERSION 8 PROBLEM, RESPONSE TO RICK > Dear John > > Remember if you have office you can use Document Scanning until you sort > out > your Open Book problems. This is my program of choice anyway. I have > Kurzweil and Omni page but never use them as I have found the Office > Utility > outperforms them both. > > Regards > > David Griffith > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Justice > Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 22:24 > To: Rick Justice; [email protected] > Subject: [Blind-Computing] OPEN BOOK VERSION 8 PROBLEM, RESPONSE TO RICK > > Hello Rick and the list: > I did exactly that yesterday, 03/10/2008. I called Technical Support and > worked with Amanda for more than an hour. She helped me to locate the > registry key and delete it so that I could re-load Open Book 8 again. > Well, > even with my experience as a computer user and her expertise, the program > will still not open and generates a "send, don't send" message every time > I > try it. > The problem has already been escalated and I hope that a solution can be > found. > For the time being, I have no scanner at all unless I uninstall Version 8 > and go back to my 7.2. That works fine by the way. > Thanks for your suggestions everyone. This one is way beyond me. > > John Justice > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:46 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] OPEN BOOK VERSION 8 PROBLEM > > >> Hi John, >> As another member already mentioned, >> FS, had a problem with some disks for OpenBook 8. >> The best thing to do at this point, would be to contact FS, tomorrow, and >> get >> more detailed instructions on how to proceed. >> HTH, >> Richard Q. Justice-website owner >> www.blind-computing.com >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "John Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:44 AM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] OPEN BOOK VERSION 8 PROBLEM >> >> >> David, now I can't install it at all. It keeps saying that there's >> another >> version already there but it's not. What am I doing wrong? >> >> John >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 10:00 PM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] OPEN BOOK VERSION 8 PROBLEM >> >> >>> Eric is on no mail right now FYI. It sounds to me like another bad disk >>> event kind of thing. I got mine the other day and it's working perfectly >>> fine. >>> David Ferrin >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "John Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "BLIND COMPUTING MAILING LIST" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:53 PM >>> Subject: [Blind-Computing] OPEN BOOK VERSION 8 PROBLEM >>> >>> >>>> Hello group. I am having trouble with my brand new Open Book Version >>>> 8.0. >>>> I checked through the list before posting and I didn't see anyone else >>>> who >>>> mentioned it. But for some reason, every time I try to bring up the >>>> program, it tries to send an error message. I have already uninstalled >>>> Open Book using the Control Panel, deleted the Open Book folder from my >>>> drive and I recently emptied the Recycle Bin just in case. I am still >>>> getting an error. I have tried using the Repair option which is under >>>> Tools in the Open Book program but that doesn't seem to help either. >>>> Does anyone have any ideas? David and Rick. Can I post this to >>>> Jaws-Users as well so that Eric might pick it up? >>>> >>>> If this is another bad disk problem, that's fine but I don't want to >>>> drive >>>> myself crazy trying to sort this out if it is just a bad disk. >>>> >>>> Does that make sense? I hope so. >>>> If anyone else is using Open Book 8.0, let me know if you are having >>>> trouble as well. >>>> >>>> SYSTEM COMPONENTS: >>>> WINDOWS XP >>>> JAWS 9.0 >>>> PENTIUM 3.0 >>>> >>>> There's plenty of memory left on my drive so that isn't the problem. >>>> Have >>>> I missed anything? >>>> Finally, the Repair wizard did mention some locked files at one time >>>> and >>>> I >>>> clicked the option to reboot in each case instead of ignoring the files >>>> since I didn't know what they were for. There were several .dll files >>>> that wouldn't open. >>>> But that was back a couple of tries ago. >>>> Thanks for your patience with this people. >>>> >>>> John Justice >>>> >>>> My job feeds my family, music feeds my soul. >>>> >>>> PERSONAL E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >>>> http://www.jaws-users.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] >>>> >>> >>> >>> Visit the JAWS Users List 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