MS Word question

desertjedi · Post by **desertjedi** » 2005-01-27 05:32pm

Can anyone tell me how I can scan a document... like a signed form and then add that page to a protected Word document?

Thanks a bunch guys and gals!!

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2005-01-27 05:41pm

Why do I get the felling that this has something to do with forging a signature?

desertjedi · Post by **desertjedi** » 2005-01-27 07:19pm

Not at all. We want to scan written statements and add them to reports for archiving. The massive amounts of paper we archive is taking over a majority of the space used as an office. I don't want to change anything but scan and add the statement to the investigator's report.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-01-27 07:42pm

Step 1: Get a better word processor.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-01-27 07:49pm

Just tell your scanning software to dump the image into word.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2005-01-27 08:11pm

Why not just scan it as a jpeg and then insert the picture?

Ninja of the North · Post by **Ninja of the North** » 2005-01-27 08:40pm

Arrow Mk84 wrote:Why not just scan it as a jpeg and then insert the picture?

Or you could just leave it as a JPEG so when Micro$oft decides to change their formats in two years, you are left with a format you can use.

Other than that, I've heard of special text-recognition software that can read a scanned document and 'translate' it into text. It is error prone though, so some serious editing would be required.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-01-27 11:27pm

Most scanners come with OCR software, but unless the documents are typed using the more usual fonts, it won't make anything out of it.

jcow79 · Post by **jcow79** » 2005-01-28 01:01am

A lot of those OCR programs that come with scanners will only scan to PDF format. If this is for a business I would consider buying Adobe Acrobat Professional. If you want cheap there are some third party programs that can do the same thing but don't have quite all the functionality as Acrobat.

desertjedi · Post by **desertjedi** » 2005-01-28 02:25pm

Since i have no say in what software we use due to licensing concerns, we're kinda stuck with M$. I guess JPEGs could work. Thanks alot you guys.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2005-01-28 03:26pm

Ninja of the North wrote: Or you could just leave it as a JPEG so when Micro$oft decides to change their formats in two years, you are left with a format you can use.

Have you not looked at the "Save As" dialog? Every format back to 2.x is there.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-30 08:05am

jcow79 wrote:A lot of those OCR programs that come with scanners will only scan to PDF format.

Well if all else fails, you can always copy-pasted PDF page into any text editor.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-01-30 10:35am

Arrow Mk84 wrote:
Ninja of the North wrote: Or you could just leave it as a JPEG so when Micro$oft decides to change their formats in two years, you are left with a format you can use.
Have you not looked at the "Save As" dialog? Every format back to 2.x is there.

Dont you know Microsoft is going to toss their fanaticaly dedication to supporting almost every major application and major file format written since 1980's for MS-DOS 2?

Or so the anti-Microsoft propaganda goes.

Over 25 years dedicated to backwards compadibility support, and for some reason they expect Microsoft todo a 180 degree turn and dump all of it for some reason.