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Old 03-19-2009, 04:23 PM   #1
 
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Unhappy typing text on bmp file

I down loaded a picture of some text from a scanner as a bmp, because someone told me it had to be bmp to type more text. I tried downloading it to word from my documents and it downloaded ok, but couldnt type anything new. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
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Old 03-19-2009, 05:55 PM   #2
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When you scan the text, Windows Scan Wizard has an option to specifically scan as text. Try that and let us know if it works.
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Old 03-19-2009, 10:48 PM   #3
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If you are using software that came with the scanner, you have to use OCR (optical character recognition). Check your help files.
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