Back to TOC Scanning from HP PrecisionScan Pro 51
To create editable text
1 Choose Scan To from the Scan menu.
2 Choose Text File from the Destination pull-down menu, and then
click Scan.
3 Select a text or text-and-image file format in the Format pull-down
menu, and then click Save. See "List of file types" on page 52.
4 If the program you select accepts multipage files, you might be
asked if you have more pages to scan to this file. Do one of the
following:
● If this is a one-page item, click Done.
● If there are more pages of this item, load the next page in the
scanner and click Scan on the computer. Repeat until all pages
are scanned. Then, click Done.
The OCR program opens and creates editable text from the scanned
image.
Note: You can also save a scanned image and import the
image into your OCR software. See "To save a scan for
future processing in OCR software" on page 52.
Returning the image to a program that
supports TWAIN or the HP ScanJet Plug-in
If you started the scan from a program that supports TWAIN or the HP
ScanJet Plug-in, you can perform a final scan and return the image to
that program using this procedure. For more information about
scanning using TWAIN or the HP ScanJet Plug-in, see "Scanning from
other programs" on page 64.
To return the image to a program
Do one of the following:
● On the Scan menu, click Return Image To.
● On the toolbar, click .
