Brother MFC-3100C - Manual (Page 135)

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Links to Many Other Applications
ScanSoft™ PaperPort ® automatically recognizes many other applications on
your computer and creates a “working link” to them. The Link Bar at the bottom
of Desktop view shows icons of those linked applications. To use a link, drag an
item onto one of the icons to start the application represented by the icon. A
typical use of the Link Bar is to select an item and then fax it.
This sample Link Bar shows several applications with links to PaperPort ® .
If PaperPort ® does not automatically recognize one of the applications on your
computer, you can manually create a link using the Create New Link
command. (See PaperPort
® in the On-Line-Documentation on the CD-ROM
for more information about creating new links.)
Using ScanSoft™ TextBridge ® OCR
(Converting Image Text to Text You Can Edit)
Software by:
ScanSoft™ TextBridge ® OCR is installed automatically with PaperPort ® when
you install Multi-Function Link ® Pro on your computer.
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 ® uses your application if it is already on your computer. You can
convert the entire item, or by using the Copy As 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.