Cal Bear '66

I think he should just fax his resume if he wrote it himself. Or if he had it
prepares by a resume service, he should ask for and electronic copy on CD and
then he could just fax the resume file instead of trying to convert a paper copy
into an document file.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:02:04 -0700, tcseacliff69
> <tcseacliff69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> I am again having great difficulty understanding you. Please rewrite
> the above with conventional spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and
> write very slowly and carefully. Try to make it extra easy for those
> trying to help you. If your native language isn't English, perhaps
> what you wrote would be acceptable, but if you are an English speaker,
> please write clearly.
>
>
>
>> "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.
>> >
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