Technical data

10 WORKING WITH PAPERPORT
CONVERTING A PAPERPORT ITEM TO TEXT
A PaperPort item is an image. Even the text on a scanned item is simply
a picture of the text, and you can’t edit it as you would text in a word-
processing document. If a supported word-processing icon such as Word
appears on the Link Bar, you can use PaperPort to convert the item to
text. The PaperPort software performs this conversion by using the
built-in OCR (optical character recognition) software provided with
PaperPort. After converting an image into text, you can edit the file by
using a word-processing application, such as Word.
To convert a PaperPort item to text from Desktop View:
1. Select the
PaperPort item to
convert. It can be
a single page or a
stack.
2. Drag the item onto
the word-
processing link
icon on the Link
Bar.
You can also just
click the word-
processing link icon.
3. When the word-
processing link
icon is highlighted,
release the mouse
button.
The OCR software
displays a progress
window while the
conversion is in
process.