Brother DCP-8020 - Manual (Page 139)

HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS ® 8 - 22
ScanSoft
®
TextBridge
®
OCR lets you convert
image text into text you can edit
ScanSoft
®
TextBridge
®
OCR is installed automatically with
PaperPort ® when you install MFL-Pro Suite 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
®
can use your preferred 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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