If your material is all text, what you need is scanning with OCR (optical
character recognition) capability to capture the text; if not, you'd need to
select different parts of the page for scanning. Then the scan software
should recognize whether the selection is graphics or text, and allow OCR
for the text parts. I'm not aware of what scan software with these
capabilities might be out there, but generally something suitable comes with
the scanner. This way you'd be creating a bunch of files (some graphics,
some text). Then you'd have to reassemble the files in Writer, probably
using frames to position things properly.
In any case, almost certainly you'd have some cleanup to do on text that
wasn't fully recognized. You'd also have to work on fonts, font sizes, and
so on for the text to make it look right.
As you can see, scanning is not really well coordinated with editing. If you
have access to the material in some more direct form, you'd be better off
with that. Or, if you really just want to move things around, there's always
good old manual cut and paste!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] How do I scan to Open Document Text File
Hello again,
Thank you for the information on scanning. I have done what you said and
that was fine...however, once I have scanned the document or text into Open
Office, how do I edit the text once it is there? I need to be able to move
things around a bit. Thanks for your help.
Louis
Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday February 27 2007 11:41 am, James Knott wrote:
Louis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using version 2.1, and still learning by the way. My
> question is: How do I scan text and images into an Open Office
> Text Document? I want to put together an E-Book by scanning the
> material I have put together for it.
There are a couple of ways. Some scanner utilities allow you to
scan directly into an application. However, you can always scan
from within OpenOffice. Just click on Insert > Picture > Scan.
Copy to Louis.
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