*Drew Jensen* typed up the following on 19-Nov-07 07:19 (GMT +11):
Drew Jensen wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
I have an HP Scanjet 3770 flatbed scanner wihch I use on Win XP Pro.
It came with OCR software. The software knows how to scan (via OCR)
directly into a .doc MS Word document or into an RTF file. Is there
some way to make it "aware of" OpenOffice so that I can scan directly
into a .odt Writer document? Because I don't have Word installed the
software fails (not unreasonably) when I tell it to scan into Word.
I've browsed the HP support sites and Goolged but so far ...
Hi Harold,
Under OO.o it appears that only scanning in as a graphic is supported
directly. I have HP's Image Zone Plus on my XP box and NO MS Word
either, IZ offers to scan via OCR to a wordpad file in this case. Once
the scan and OCR pass is finished then I have to do a copy past from
the Wordpad window it creates.
Drew
One more thing - You could get a copy of Simple OCR ( Free ) and install
that. It will scan to a .doc format, but it will also open the default
word processor instead of just word. I have tried this and it does work
with OO.o. The simple OCR program can be setup to start from a menu item
under OpenOffice then scan the page and up it comes as a new OpenOffice
document. It isn't embedded into the current document but a new one.
Thanks for the pointer, Drew. This is something I've been trying to
sort out as well - I currently have OmniPage SE, which scans into MS
Office files very nicely, but I'd prefer an OO.o solution.
--
Klaas Visser
Using OpenOffice.org 2.3
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