About Microsoft Office Document Imaging

With Microsoft Office Document Imaging, a program that is included with your Microsoft Office program, you can use a scanned document as easily as other Microsoft Office documents on your computer.

Why use Office Document Imaging ?

To:

Send scanned documents to others in e-mail or as a fax over the Internet.
Scan both single and multi-page documents.
Export scanned text and images to Microsoft Word.
Copy scanned text and images and paste in any Office program.
Perform optical character recognition (OCR) on a document.
Read a scanned document as easily as a paper document.
Search for text within scanned documents.
Reorganize scanned document pages as easily as rearranging papers in a folder.
Annotate scanned documents and faxes.

When to use Office Document Imaging?

When:

Accessing and working with text or images contained in scanned documents or faxes.
Filling out simple forms online that have been scanned or faxed.
Extracting text from existing scanned documents or faxes for archiving.
Rearranging the page order of multi-page scanned documents.
Reading scanned documents quickly and easily on the screen.
Annotating an electronic fax and return it to the sender.

Scanning and imaging

Microsoft Office Document Imaging actually has two components— a scanning component and an imaging component— listed separately on the Windows Start menu as Microsoft Office Document Scanning and Microsoft Office Document Imaging.

The first component controls the scanning of documents into your computer by using any installed scanner. This is done by using scanning presets, which control your scanner by using settings that are optimized for specific purposes. For example, the Black and white scanning preset is ideal when scanning pages of text for OCR, while the Color scanning preset is best for scanning full-color pictures or artwork. Also, OCR is automatically performed by default on text documents immediately after scanning, and you can easily scan multiple pages into a single file.

Show Start Microsoft Office Document Scanning

In Microsoft Windows XP, on the Windows Start menu, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Office, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Document Scanning.
In Microsoft Windows 2000, on the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Document Scanning.

The second component makes it easy to view scanned documents on the screen, rearrange multi-page documents, select and manipulate recognized text, annotate scanned documents and electronic faxes, and send documents to others by e-mail or fax.

Show Start Microsoft Office Document Imaging

In Microsoft Windows XP, on the Windows Start menu, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Office, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Document Imaging.
In Microsoft Windows 2000, on the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Document Imaging.

Show About the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer print driver

The Microsoft Office Document Image Writer print driver is included with Microsoft Office Document Imaging, and allows you to save any Office document (any file that can be printed from the program it was created in on your computer) in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) or Microsoft Office Document Imaging Format (MDI). You can then open the TIFF or MDI file in Office Document Imaging to make changes, add annotations, perform OCR, or send to someone using your e-mail program.