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Making scanned text editable – HP 7400C Series User Manual

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Making scanned text editable

You can make text on a scanned image editable. The optical character
recognition (OCR) program converts the text to be editable and then
places it in a supported word-processing program. Depending on the
capabilities of the word-processing program, graphics on a scanned
image might be retained or discarded, or the OCR program might try to
convert them and they will appear as random characters.

Tip

If a block of text appears in Microsoft Word or another
word-processing program inside a frame you do not want,
double-click the frame border and click Remove Frame or
a similar command.

To make text editable from the scanner

1

Place the original face down on the scanner glass and close the lid.

Note:

To load items in the ADF, see

page 66

.

2

Press

E

DIT

T

EXT

on the scanner.

3

If the scanner or the computer prompts you for another page, do
one of the following:

If you do not have more pages to scan, click Done.

If there are additional pages of this item, load the next page and
click Scan. Repeat until all pages are scanned. Then, click
Done.

4

When the text opens in the word-processing program, check it
carefully for accuracy.