Ken Blake, MVP

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:50:01 -0700, tcseacliff69
<tcseacliff69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have an HP pavillion w/ windows premium. seems new computers see no need
> for floppy discs any more.


Is the lack of a floppy drive pertinent to what you ask about below?


> I have a scanner. when i scan my resume. i cannot
> seem to format it properly to put it on other websites. I returned my hp
> scanner,was impossible to use, now have a canon all-in-one works great but i
> stll cannot save and send my resume properly. I can save it as a text doc,
> save it with adobe,I can look at it all I want but cannot copy and paste it!
> either it reopens elswhere all changed around and un readable, doesn't even
> resemle a resume. and now i can't get it back into word, it only goes into
> some vista default storage area which I stll cannot get the e-mail working?
> is it possible to have scanned documents be read as written? they coy
> beatifully but employers want them pested no-can-do!!HELP111



Sorry, but I find it very difficult to understand exactly what you're
trying to say here.

Your problem appears to be that you have a printed resume and you're
trying to scan it so you can have an electronic version to paste into
Word to send to prospective employees.

If that's the case, realize that you can hardly ever just scan a
document, turn it into text, and paste it somewhere while still
retaining the formatting.

When you scan a document, you end up with a picture of the text, not
the text itself. To turn that picture into real text, you need
software called Optical Character Recognition (OCR, for short). The
OCR software recognizes the pictures of the letters (with *some*
degree of accuracy; 100% is never guaranteed) and generates the
appropriate letters.

Many scanners come with OCR software. Did yours? Which particular OCR
program? Did you use it?

After you've scanned the document and "OCRed" it, you have to
proofread to correct any errors (at least a few are likely), and then
edit the results in your word processing program (Word) to put back
the formatting that was almost certainly lost.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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