Need help in retrieving scanned documents while in Word

I don't know of any way to insert a pdf file into a Word document - you need to save it to an image format from your scanner (jpg, tiff, etc.) and then you'll be able to insert it into Word.

Clinton

What version of Word are you using? I just tried it on my system. Opened a new word doc, select Insert from the menu and then File then selected a PDF and clicked Insert and that files text came into the Word Doc.

Just tried it again and now I get gibberish.

Must be in the way the PDF was created. Thje one that inserted was created on a Windows PC using I think CutePDF. the one that inserted as gibberish was an Apple KB PDF.

Just tried it on Word 2000 on PC and get the same gibbrish.

JimPfromNH wrote:

I'm using Word 2008 for Mac, version 12.3.3

Yeah I don't think you can do it. Maybe Copy and Paste from the PDF but as far as inserting it I don't think that is going to work. Like Clifton says.

You really need something like Acrobat Pro to do what you're trying to do - with it you can run OCR on a scanned document and save it in Word format. There may be some less expensive apps out there that will OCR your document and save as text format - there's something called PDFpenPro that would do what you need - and it's less expensive than Acrobat Pro...

Clinton

Unless your scanner has OCR software provided, it's simply going to save as an image. Now with AcroPro, you can OCR scanned images, and there is other OCR software available. But unless you're able to extract the text, via OCR, you're just going to get an image.

Clinton

Check in the Scan software to see what file formats are available. I doubt a Word Doc is but you never know until you try.