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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