On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Michael Dewey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I have Open Office 4.1.5, and Cannon Cannon MX892 Printer. > I would like to know how to scan a text doc into text in Open Office? > Leoburg911 > Michael C Dewey A scanner is basically a camera that photographs sheets of paper. Its output is a picture. You can read any text in that picture, but the computer cannot. For the computer to do this, it needs a special program called an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program; these are often supplied with the the scanner and will read the scan (the "photograph" of the page) into a text file - sometimes .doc, sometimes .html, sometimes .txt. You then open (or insert) this file into an OO document and can proceed to edit it. Complete integration of this process, so that a scanner produces a text file directly in OO, is very complex and has not been implemented. -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
