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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Printing and Faxing / January 2008Opening Scanned Documents
I scanned documents from my Lexmark scanner and sent them to a folder under Documents. Now when I try to open, it tells me Microsoft Works Word is unable to open. This also happens to docs saved from Print Artist which is compatible w/Vista I can open the docs under Corel Snapfire,but I am only a trial period with them.  Signaturecdu >I scanned documents from my Lexmark scanner and sent them to a folder under > Documents. Now when I try to open, it tells me Microsoft Works Word is [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I can open the docs under Corel Snapfire,but I am only a trial period with > them. How did you save the scanned documents? What file format did you save them as? They have to be saved in the same format that the word processor in Microsoft Works uses in order to open in Works. > I scanned documents from my Lexmark scanner Just scanning gives you images/pictures, not text unless your scanner came with OCR software to convert it to text characters. If you don't have OCR software (and it's hidden away in Microsoft Office Tools, even in Works Suite 8 that I have) then try a Google on SimpleOCR. That does not include VISTA in its list of operating systems but I installed it yesterday using compatibility mode and Run as Adminsitrator and it works fine. Remarkably good for a freeware program. Thanks everyone, it does come with OCR software and i have gotten the message that it was not set up correctly & for me to insert the setup cd. I haven't done that yet. Kevin, how do I find out what format Microsoft Works Word uses? Cheryl Signaturecdu > > > I scanned documents from my Lexmark scanner [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Remarkably good for a freeware program. > Thanks everyone, it does come with OCR software and i have gotten the > message [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Kevin, how do I find out what format Microsoft Works Word uses? Cheryl, see this link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP011881161033.aspx As the article indicates, there are different versions of Works documents, like Works 6.0 for instance. I have never been very impressed with Works, even when Microsoft went so far as to include a full copy of Microsoft Word with it. It is worth the expense to purchase a copy of Microsoft Office. See this link for details on file formats supported by Works: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884182 Good luck! > Cheryl > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> >> Remarkably good for a freeware program. > Kevin, how do I find out what format Microsoft Works Word uses? Are you using Microsoft Works or one of the Microsoft Works Suites that comes with Microsoft WORD in place of the simpler WORKS word processor? I have Works Suite 8 and it comes with WORD 2002 that used .doc but can deal with other formats such as .rtf -- The WORKS word processor format uses .wps for its extension but you may need a converter that you can get from the Microsoft Office website in order to open WORKS files in WORD. If you are wanting to know what file format to use for saving your OCR then the rich text format .rtf would be best. |
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