On Sunday March 04 2007 2:11 pm, Barbara Duprey wrote: > 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. Additional comments copied to Louis.
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