Chapter 4
Scan and Save Documents
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3.
Drag the thumbnail of your document to the
Samples\Photos
subfolder.
Scan and Save Session 2 — Capture Text from a Book
In this session you will learn how to:
◆
Scan in a page from a book
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Crop the page to get just the text you want
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Send the text to your word processor
▼
Scan in a page from a book
1.
Click the
Scan
button to open the
Scan
pane.
2.
Place the book on your scanner.
3.
Scan your document. (Refer to
Scan a magazine article
section on page 48.) A new
thumbnail appears on the Desktop.
▼
Crop the page to get just the text you want
1.
Select the item and click the
Page View
button to view the pages. Notice that
the sample in Figure 39 shows facing pages. The target text in this session is the
first two paragraphs of the left-hand page.
Figure 39.
Scanned Pages From a Book