Importing items from other applications, Exporting items in other formats, Exporting an image file – Brother MFC-9030 User Manual

Page 101: Using scansoft, Textbridge, Ocr (converting image text to text you can edit)

Chapter 14

Using ScanSoft

™

TextBridge

OCR

(Converting Image Text to Text You Can Edit)

Software by:

ScanSoft

™

ScanSoft

™

TextBridge

OCR is automatically installed when you install PaperPort

on your

computer.

PaperPort

can quickly convert the text on a 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.

Importing 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).

Exporting Items in Other Formats

You can export or save PaperPort

items in several popular file formats. You can export formats

BMP, PCX, DCX, JPG, TIF, PDF, PNG, FPX, HFX, or self-viewing. For example, you could create
a file for an Internet Web site and export it as a JPEG file. Web pages often use JPEG files for
displaying images.

Exporting an Image File

Select the Export command from the File pull-down menu in the PaperPort

window. The

Export ‘XXXXX’ As dialog box will be displayed.

Select the drive and directory where you want to store the file.

Enter the new file name and choose the file type or select a name from the File Name text box.
(You can scroll through the Directories and File Name listing for prompting.)

Select the OK button to save your file, or Cancel to return to the PaperPort

without saving it.