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How to Scan to Word?

Introduction

Step 1. Scan Image

Step 2. Start OCR

Step 3. Save Text

Required Resources

OCR Free 4.2.1 or later
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Introduction

    Have you seen something in a magazine/book and you'd like to change a few words in it here and there? Now you don't have to type out the whole page. There is a way to turn those magazine/book pages into Microsoft Word documents without typing! Instead, you can use your scanner to scan them through our OCR Free, which helps convert scanned images to Word to save on your computer.

Step 1. Scan Image

    Launch OCR Free and click "Scan..." to choose a scanner connected to your computer and activate the scanner program of your system.

Activate Scanner

You may click "Preview" to see the file to be scanned. Then click "Scan" to perform scanning.

Start Scan

Several seconds later, the image is scanned to the image window. Click "Fit Image", "Fit Width", "Enlarge" and "Reduce" to adjust the image to the right size; if needed, click "Rotate ACW" or "Rotate CW" to correct it to the up-right position; or you can drag your mouse to select a part of the image.

Adjust Image


Step 2. Start OCR

    Click "OCR" to extract the text from the selection. The extracted text will display in the text window in several seconds. Click the text window and you can find some documents tools on the top. "Clear Text Window" is to delete all of the text and there is "Remove Line Breaks" button for easier editing. You can also click "Copy all Texts to Clipboard" to copy text in order to place it into the application of your choice.

Start OCR


Step 3. Save Text

    Click "Export Text into Microsoft Word" to output the extracted text in Word, then you can save it as Word document. (To save the extracted text as *.txt, click "Save Text".)

Save Text

 

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