![]() In the scanning window, click the Scanner button and select your scanner.Go to the start menu programs and inside Microsoft Office Tools open Microsoft Office Document Scanning.Connect your scanner and load the item to scan.The recognized text and any pictures it may have found will be exported to a HTML file opened by whichever version of Word you have installed.If the image had pictures/diagrams inside it that you’d wish to export too, check the option to Maintain pictures in output. If the TIFF had multiple pages, make sure to select the All Pages option. A dialog will pop up with options to send the text.Once it’s done, click the Send Text to Word button. Once the image is loaded inside MODI, click the Recognize Text Using OCR button.Inside MODI, click the Open icon and select your TIFF image from the dialog.Go to the start menu programs and inside Microsoft Office Tools open Microsoft Office Document Imaging.Once you have your images in this format, do the follwoing: In the save dialog, select the TIFF type and save the image. Just open the image with Paint, choose to Save as then select Other Formats. You can even use Paint to do the conversion. JPEG, PNG, GIF) you can use an one of the many free image editors available online (XnView, IrfanView etc.) to convert them to TIFF. If you picture is in another format (e.g. MODI only OCRs images that are in TIFF (*.tif, *.tiff) format. By connecting to your scanner and automatically running the OCR after the document is completed scanning.Set all the available options to Not Available then expand Office Tools and set Microsoft Office Document Imaging to Run all from my Computer.Select the Customize installation option.Run your SharePoint Designer 2007 or MS Office 2007 installer.How to OCR with Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) Step 1. A scanner if you want to OCR during the scanning process.Ģ.If you’ve a licensed copy of MS Office 2007 already, you can use it instead of having to download SharePoint Designer 2007.MS pulled down the link from their download center get it from Softpedia instead. the standalone SharePoint Designer 2007 that is provided as a free download by Microsoft.For the standalone OCR function, you’ll need SharePoint Designer 2007 to install MODI.OneNote (any version from Office 2007-2016).However, you don’t necessarily need to have MS Office 2007 as it can be installed separately and be used with newer versions of MS Office. MS Office 2007 was the last version to feature it. Note however that starting with Office 2019, the OneNote app for Windows 10 has superseded the past Office versions, but it doesn’t include the OCR option.įor MODI, things are a little different, as it was long discontinued. Using Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI)Īll MS Office versions of OneNote 2007 and later will do for this purpose.I suppose that could be attributed to them using the free Tesseract OCR engine which, while powerful in its own right, tends to be outperformed by commercial alternatives. Ultimately, however, they all proved to be less capable compared to the OCR engine in MS Office which was more accurate and faster. I had considered other options before settling for it, such as the feature rich PDF-XChange Editor that bundles OCR with its PDF viewer. In my case, I was able to reduce the workload of this particular job by about 70-80%, and it would be higher were it not for the few wrongly identified characters and the touching up of some diagrams.įor my OCR needs, I went with MS Office. OCR can thus save you time and money that you’d otherwise spend typing or outsourcing to professionals. In layman’s terms, think of it as converting images to text. OCR is basically the identification of text from image files. The first thing that came to my mind was OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Knowing this would be a challenge in terms of the time and effort I’ll have to set aside, I decided to look for a much quicker solution.
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