Copy / Paste from Word

This is probably stupid ! I have scanned a document into Word, saved it as a
Word document, I cannot find a way of editing this document or use the Copy /
Paste facility. I can print it out - that is all. Any ideas please.

When you scan a document, you are scanning an image of the document and
saving it. It's like a photograph - you cannot edit or change it. In order
to extract text from the document you would need to use an OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) program to read the scanned image and extract text.
Check your scanner documentation to see if such was provided with your
scanner.

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"Bicky" <> wrote in message
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> This is probably stupid ! I have scanned a document into Word, saved it as
> a
> Word document, I cannot find a way of editing this document or use the
> Copy /
> Paste facility. I can print it out - that is all. Any ideas please.

Richard - thank you - problem solved. i have a Lexmark 5470. It is all in
there. I did say that I was stupid !!

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> When you scan a document, you are scanning an image of the document and
> saving it. It's like a photograph - you cannot edit or change it. In order
> to extract text from the document you would need to use an OCR (Optical
> Character Recognition) program to read the scanned image and extract text.
> Check your scanner documentation to see if such was provided with your
> scanner.
>
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> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
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>
>
> "Bicky" <> wrote in message
> news:803C7957-3FD2-4D7E-B570-...
> > This is probably stupid ! I have scanned a document into Word, saved it as
> > a
> > Word document, I cannot find a way of editing this document or use the
> > Copy /
> > Paste facility. I can print it out - that is all. Any ideas please.
>
>

I'm glad I was able to help you find what you needed.

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"Bicky" <> wrote in message
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> Richard - thank you - problem solved. i have a Lexmark 5470. It is all in
> there. I did say that I was stupid !!
>
> "Richard G. Harper" wrote:
>
>> When you scan a document, you are scanning an image of the document and
>> saving it. It's like a photograph - you cannot edit or change it. In
>> order
>> to extract text from the document you would need to use an OCR (Optical
>> Character Recognition) program to read the scanned image and extract
>> text.
>> Check your scanner documentation to see if such was provided with your
>> scanner.
>>
>> --
>> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
>> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
>> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
>> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
>>
>>
>> "Bicky" <> wrote in message
>> news:803C7957-3FD2-4D7E-B570-...
>> > This is probably stupid ! I have scanned a document into Word, saved it
>> > as
>> > a
>> > Word document, I cannot find a way of editing this document or use the
>> > Copy /
>> > Paste facility. I can print it out - that is all. Any ideas please.
>>
>>