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s1mp13m4n

s1mp13m4n

Hello everyone. I have an HP Officejet J4550 all in one printer. It is hooked to a WinXP machine. I have OpenOffice.org on the computer. I want to take the papers from my beginners Bible class and scan them to the computer in to a file where I can enlarge the text size for either reprinting or for reading on the monitor. The default is to scan as a picture using the scanner and I do not want a .jpg file. How do i do this? Is there any (free) software that I will need like OCR software? :) Thanks for the help.
 
82R100

82R100

Do you need OCR? Do you need to be able to edit the content as text?

If not, I'd scan it into a JPG then insert, crop and enlarge each JPG onto a presentation page (using the Open Office Powerpoint equivalent). You'd probably end up inserting the same JPG two or three times to make two or three pages (due to the enlarging issues). In Powerpoint, at least, it's very easy to stretch an inserted picture while maintaining the aspect ratio.

These are my first thoughts.
 
s1mp13m4n

s1mp13m4n

82R100 said:
Do you need OCR? Do you need to be able to edit the content as text?

If not, I'd scan it into a JPG then insert, crop and enlarge each JPG onto a presentation page (using the Open Office Powerpoint equivalent). You'd probably end up inserting the same JPG two or three times to make two or three pages (due to the enlarging issues). In Powerpoint, at least, it's very easy to stretch an inserted picture while maintaining the aspect ratio.

These are my first thoughts.
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I do not "need" ocr it would just be nice to type my answer to end of chapter questions rather than printing the thing and writing them in. My HP has a scan function on it but it will not scan from the printer, you must do it with the MS scan/camera wizzard which scans as a picture. I guess that would be ok and it would work. I will just have to try it and see. I am not good at this type of thing. Heck I do not know my way around an Office suite because I just do not use them every day. :)
 
Bri-Dog

Bri-Dog

You may want to check the software that came with the printer. The last few all-in-ones I purchased (a Canon, an HP, and an Epson) came with some form of OCR software.

I did a quick google search using the terms freeware OCR and received a number of hits, so this may be an option as well.
 
s1mp13m4n

s1mp13m4n

I just got done using the Windows scan/camer utility which is what HP says to use which I find strange. It worked fine and I think that I can use that to do what I am trying to do which is simply read it. I sent an email to the teacher of the class asking them for the .doc file which they printed this from so I can enlarge text right from within OpenOffice. Thanks for the help folks. :) By the way the printer is hooked to my mother's WinXP machine. I am using Linux. Ubuntu on an older laptop and Fedora on the machine supplied to me from the Dept. F/T Blind. I do not have the HP bundled software installed on the machine, drivers only. It is an older P42.6 and having too much running in the background at startup slows it way down, so it is set to be light and fast.
 
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C

C Reed

If you have CS4 and want to make one pdf with all the documents scan them all in order into a folder as .jpeg files-> open the folder with Bridge-> select all the files-> right click, click make a .pdf with photoshop cs4-> photo shop opens all the files automaticaly-> click the editable text box in the peferances window-> click "ok"-> wait for your pdf
 
s1mp13m4n

s1mp13m4n

I now have the origional .doc files that I asked for. I was sent the files today, all of them in a .zip file. They work great in OpenOffice in Linux. Thank you for all the help. :)
 
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