Using All In One Printer

[teyong]

Here is what I have:

 

HP all in one copier, printer and scanner HP500C

windows XP home SP2

 

The problem:

HP does not support this unit and since windows xp has left it up to windows to control this unit. I; at least I think, use to be able to copy and save to a file on my disk. I can not do that in windows xp. I can copy and save a photo or print. Not copy a document and save it as a word document.

 

Is there a way in windows to do so or a program that will allow me to do so?

 

Thanks,

David

[TCH-Don]

Hi David ( waves )

 

I use a program called TextBridge for OCR scanning

and save to wordperfect or any word processor document type.

they do a good job with text and fair with text and pics.

Edited December 8, 2004 by TCH-Don

[Madmanmcp]

An all-in-one scanner will not save a scanned document by itself, you need to purchase an additional "OCR" (Optical Character Recognition) program to convert the scanned image into a text type format.

 

Don has suggested Textbridge and I use Omni Page to save as document formats such as MS Word.

[teyong]

Thanks, guys. I did not know what it was called "OCR". Based on that information from you I did a search and found a program that was free and since I only needed it for my grandchilds school instructions, found it to work for my needs.

 

http://www.simpleocr.com/

 

Again, thank you for your quick answers.

 

David

[Madmanmcp]

You're welcome and thanks for the link to that freeware program. I'll have to take a look at it and keep it for future references.