tcseacliff69

rwell. iI am startimg to realize that a scanned doc is a photo of typed
document,so i used my default program for an OCR document omni-page came with
my canon. my problem is as you stated taking a scanned document and making it
readable somewhere else. I have a resume in a folder in documents on my vista
home premium. two problems . one being my e-mail is no longer supported(which
is msn premium,a microsoft product) and two being , I have a resume in an OCR
format and cannot move it (paste) it onto an employers webpage, the page
says "paste your resume here. make sure it is properly formatted. that is
impossible,and that is my problem . why can't we just use snail mail, my
printer works so well,and i am quite adept at stamps and envelopes!!!!! can
you help?

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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