scan legal size doc.

[walt]

Is there an easy way to scan a legal size doc. and bring it into something like word or works. Using XP Home, Canon scanner

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"walt" > wrote in message:
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| Is there an easy way to scan a legal size doc. and bring it into something like word or works. Using XP
Home, Canon scanner

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Sure. The first step is buying a scanner that supports legal size
documents. Not all do.

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"walt" > wrote in message
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> Is there an easy way to scan a legal size doc. and bring it into
> something like word or works. Using XP Home, Canon scanner

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If I understand correctly, you'll also need a program that will convert your
scanned document to an OCR so you can manipulate it in word.. I believe that
Word 2003 can do it.

walt wrote:
> Is there an easy way to scan a legal size doc. and bring it into
> something like word or works. Using XP Home, Canon scanner

[C.E. Jones]

You need a scanner that will scan 81/2 x 14. Flat bed scanner works best. I
use Microtec X6EL. It's about 5 years old. The software that comes with it
is the best I've seen.

Then, you need to convert the scanned image into Text. This is called an OCR
(Optical Character Recognition) Program. As stated in previous posts, Office
XP (2003) and 2003 have OCR capabilities. If you do not have those versions
of office, check out an OCR program called Text Bridge. It will scan and
convert your image to text into Word or Excel.

C.E. Jones

" > wrote in message
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> If I understand correctly, you'll also need a program that will convert
your
> scanned document to an OCR so you can manipulate it in word.. I believe
that
> Word 2003 can do it.
>
> walt wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to scan a legal size doc. and bring it into
> > something like word or works. Using XP Home, Canon scanner
>
>