XYZ file so you can get the text and paste it into AOO.
It is MUCH better to take fred.XYZ and find a program which will read the. But if they are text files from an ancient word processor or editor, ask what format are the files? Assume they are called fred.XYZ. The real question is "Why are you trying to do this by scanning and OCR?" Of course, if the files are images on the DOS machine, then you don't need to scan them - just process the images with OCR software. Sometimes Steps 1 and 2 and 3 can all be controlled from the OCR software - you start the OCR software and tell it to scan the paper document, convert it, and save it. Or create a new document with AOO and paste from the clipboard. Or just copy the text using Edit > Copy.ģ Open the. ), and tell it to process fred.png and convert it to text. Scanner vendors usually include a 3rd party OCR package with their scanner - my Canon comes with the ScanSoft OCR software.ġ Use the scanner to scan an image of the text and save it as a PNG file - say fred.pngĢ Run your OCR software (Start > All programs > find it. I downloaded the Advanced Manual for the MFC-J220 and it says nothing about OCR so it looks like the Brother Scanner itself does not include an OCR capability. Your problem is with the scanner, not AOO, so you should be asking questions in the scanner forum, not here. rtf file, which you can then open with OpenOffice. However, the OCR application may not like to work directly with OpenOffice in that case, you ought be able to t el it to output the recognised text as a. This will most probably be swriter.exe which you will need to find insert its address into the OCR setup. I suspect what is happening is that your Brother-supplied OCR application is looking for the address of the editor (in this case OpenOffice) to which to pass the recognised text. rtf file, which file can then be loaded into OpenOffice for editing. This, in turn, reads the text and outputs (usually) a. Often a scanner comes with such an application, part of which scans the document and passes the picture to the "reading" section of the application. For the computer to "know" about the text, it has to be processed by an OCR application (Optical Character Recognition).
This is a picture of the text, just as much as if you had taken it with a camera. A scanner scans to a picture, which may be any one of.
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