2008/7/22 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Harold Fuchs wrote:
>
>> On 21/07/2008 12:39, James Knott wrote:
>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to find a way to scan a document,send as a PDF file so I
>>>> can
>>>> type into it and than print it. I know there is software that will do
>>>> this but it is very expensive,and way out of my price range,that is why
>>>> I
>>>> am wondering if you have any thing like this that will
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Sincerely,Jon Bennett
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> With OpenOffice, you can can the document into Writer and then export to
>>> PDF. I have also scanned in a document and used it as the background and
>>> then added appropriate text over top.
>>>
>>>
>>> a) Forwarding to unsubscribed OP.
>> b) To James Knott: please, which software package/s allow/s OCR scanning
>> into Writer? Which OS/s do/es this/these package/s run under? I don't mean
>> RTF. Or, even with RTF, which software package/s can actually invoke
>> OpenOffice Writer when they have finished scanning? On which OS's?
>>
>> I didn't say OCR scanning, I said I scanned in a document, used it as
> background and then entered new text.
OK, I'll try again. Please explain in detail what software you used and what
file type(s) ("extensions" in Windows terminology) you used to get the
document as a background into Writer. Sorry, but to me "scan the document
into Writer" sounded as if your scanning software invoked Writer in the same
way as mine invoked Word when I had MS Office installed: my scanning
software would actually invoke Word when it had finished scanning the
document; there was *no* intermediate saved file (unless the scanning
software created and then removed a temporary working file for its own
internal purposes) and I did not have to intervene in any way. I'd dearly
love to find some good scanning software that would work in this way with
OOo; hence my persistence.
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Harold Fuchs
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