Tiff Image File conversion to MS Word document file

jorowe7,

You can't. There must be a setting in your software (with which I am not familiar) to allow you to save the scan as a text (*.txt) file so that it can be opened in Word and edited.

I don't have that scanner or its software, but according to the manual you can export it as RTF or DOC format into Word.

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Click the "Format" button on the main toolbar and choose to send the OCR result to Microsoft Word or select the RTF (Rich Text Format) or Word (DOC) format. Secondly, select "Recreate Source Document" as layout option. (The option "Merge Lines into Paragraphs" is enabled by default to apply wordwrap within the paragraphs.)

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Manual download from

http://www.irislink.com/opt/uk/support/readiris/manual/index.html

Message Edited by JRosenfeld on 08-10-2004 02:14 AM

Many thanks!  I wasn't able to get to the Getting Started Manual from my PC or even on the CD.  This time, however, when I changed my selection to "external" instead of "send to," there was an option available for both Word rtf & doc  I tried "doc" & it at least gave me readable text even though the line spacing was not duplicated.  Again, thank you very much for your help!

The manual is a pdf file. If you cannot open it, download the free Acrobat reader.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Thanks. I already have the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 & can normally read PDF's, but when I try to read the website link you provided, it will not open the "english" manual.  Could it be that the link you provided shows "UK" in the string & a different Acrobat reader is necessary?  Any suggestions?

No, we all use the same Acrobat reader, but as I'm in the UK, I generally get connected to the UK sites.

Although the Acrobat reader browser plugin will let you open a pdf file in your browser, I find it can take ages before anything shows if it's a large file (it downloads most of the file before it opens the first page).

You may find it easier to right lick on the download, click save target as, to download it to your hard drive, then open it from there.

I had in mind the full manual (top download), rather than the getting started. The full manual is more comprehensive (but it's 3 MB against 1 for etting started)

Thank you again for your tips.  They were very helpful!