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HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS
®
ScanSoft
®
TextBridge
®
OCR lets you convert
image text into text you can edit
ScanSoft
®
PaperPort
®
can quickly convert the text on a ScanSoft
®
PaperPort
®
item (which is really just a picture of the text) into text that
you can edit with a word processing application.
PaperPort
®
uses the optical character recognition application
ScanSoft
®
TextBridge
®
, which comes with PaperPort
®
—
OR
—
PaperPort
®
can use your prefered OCR application if it is already on
your computer. You can convert the entire item, or by using the Copy
Text command, you can select only a portion of the text to convert.
Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts
PaperPort
®
’s built-in OCR application, or you can use your own
OCR application.
You can Import items from other applications
In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort
®
in
a variety of ways and convert them to PaperPort
®
(MAX) files in
several different ways:
■
Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as
Microsoft
®
Excel.
■
Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows
®
Bitmap
(BMP) or Tag Image File Format (TIFF).
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