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kazbates · 12-28-2009, 08:00 AM

I started a thread here in the Workshop forum before I found this thread.

I received a Canon DR-2510 scanner for Christmas that works very well but came with Omnipage's OCR software in a very limited version. The scan turns out great and very few errors turn up in the OCR process. The problem I'm encountering is that if I save the OCRed file in doc or rtf formats, the text is saved inside of textboxes which hinders additional editing within MS Word. My thought was to open the OCRed file in Word to ultimately save it as an html file (my limited version of Omnipage does not allow me to save it as html) as per HarryT's suggestion of format of choice. If I save the file as txt, all formatting is lost. I would prefer to not have to spend $200 to upgrade to Omnipage 16 if at all possible. Any suggestions?

12-28-2009, 08:00 AM	#106
kazbates Wizard Posts: 2,627 Karma: 406616 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Northern Virginia Device: SurfacePro, SurfaceBook 2	I started a thread here in the Workshop forum before I found this thread. I received a Canon DR-2510 scanner for Christmas that works very well but came with Omnipage's OCR software in a very limited version. The scan turns out great and very few errors turn up in the OCR process. The problem I'm encountering is that if I save the OCRed file in doc or rtf formats, the text is saved inside of textboxes which hinders additional editing within MS Word. My thought was to open the OCRed file in Word to ultimately save it as an html file (my limited version of Omnipage does not allow me to save it as html) as per HarryT's suggestion of format of choice. If I save the file as txt, all formatting is lost. I would prefer to not have to spend $200 to upgrade to Omnipage 16 if at all possible. Any suggestions?