how to scan directly from the computer screen to the scanner

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Hi friends!

I have got a Dell Dimension 4500 Windows XP computer. At the present
moment when I want to scan an item, I print it out, and then scan it
to My Scans in My Documents.

Is there anyway I can scan directly from the monitor without having to
print out the item and then scan it? My printer is a combination
printer, scanner HP Photosmart C300 All-in-One series.

With Thanks.
 
asdf3b said:
Hi friends!

I have got a Dell Dimension 4500 Windows XP computer. At the present
moment when I want to scan an item, I print it out, and then scan it
to My Scans in My Documents.

Is there anyway I can scan directly from the monitor without having to
print out the item and then scan it? My printer is a combination
printer, scanner HP Photosmart C300 All-in-One series.

With Thanks.
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Is this a wind up?

Whets wrong with print screen and paste it into e.g. powerpoint or any other
image editor?
 
dennis@home said:
Is this a wind up?

Whets wrong with print screen and paste it into e.g. powerpoint or any
other image editor?
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Well it is not complete. That way you only get a Tiff or other kind of
Image File for the Document, in other words a picture of the document.

In order to get an editable file, you need to Print, then Scan then apply
OCR, and Save it as Word Doc or whatever.

Don't you know anything??? Print Screen, really!!!

Roy G
 
Roy G said:
Well it is not complete. That way you only get a Tiff or other kind of
Image File for the Document, in other words a picture of the document.

In order to get an editable file, you need to Print, then Scan then apply
OCR, and Save it as Word Doc or whatever.

Don't you know anything??? Print Screen, really!!!

Roy G
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It is very obviously not a wind-up, it seems to be coming from a Medical
School, and we all know how intelligent those students are.

Roy G
 
Roy G said:
Well it is not complete. That way you only get a Tiff or other kind of
Image File for the Document, in other words a picture of the document.

In order to get an editable file, you need to Print, then Scan then apply
OCR, and Save it as Word Doc or whatever.

Don't you know anything??? Print Screen, really!!!
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So run OCR on the file then.
I have done it loads of times using Paperport.
 
Hi friends!

I have got a Dell Dimension 4500 Windows XP computer. At the present
moment when I want to scan an item, I print it out, and then scan it
to My Scans in My Documents.

Is there anyway I can scan directly from the monitor without having to
print out the item and then scan it? My printer is a combination
printer, scanner HP Photosmart C300 All-in-One series.
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It probably isnt enough help to just say Print Screen.

With the image showing on the monitor screen, then press the PRTSCN key
(which is high on the right of keyboard, to the right of the F12 key).
In the old days of MS-DOS, this key did print the screen to the printer.
But in Windows, this instead puts that screen image into the clipboard,
which is what you want here.

Then you can insert that clipboard image into programs that accept
images with their Edit-Paste menu, or type CTRL V, same thing. You do
get the image, it is not editable text characters.

There are ifs and buts, depending. If into a photo editor, you probably
have to create a new blank image to accept it. Which has to be the
right size, but it probably knows the size to make the New image. If
it is into Word, it should just drop onto the page in Word.

And another refinement, if you hold ALT while pressing PRTSCN, usually
you get only the image of the one active window, instead of the complete
screen, which is again usually what we want. But if you do get more
than you want, you can of course just crop it.
 
asdf3b said:
Hi friends!

I have got a Dell Dimension 4500 Windows XP computer. At the present
moment when I want to scan an item, I print it out, and then scan it
to My Scans in My Documents.

Is there anyway I can scan directly from the monitor without having to
print out the item and then scan it? My printer is a combination
printer, scanner HP Photosmart C300 All-in-One series.

With Thanks.
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I recently had to solve a similar problem, doing scanning and optical
character recognition directly from a PDF without printing out first. I am
getting good results from "Microsoft Office Document Imaging" which came as
part of my MS Office XP CD. A method that works for me:
1. Use Acrobat selection tool to copy to clipboard.
2. Open "Microsoft Office Document Imaging" - choose Edit\Paste Pages
3. Do the OCR and/or convert to the Word document.
4. Looks pretty good.
 
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