HP6978 OCR Scanning

[ejr3]

Tried installing HP drivers/software that enables OCR scanning. Setup went fine but when I invoke the application and try to scan, I get the message that my printer was not fount. See image. After 4 attempts, I have given up. I need to scan documents to text and not go through, save as pdf->open pdf in Word->copy from Word to software I'm using (this is the current method to get the results I need). Please help.

[Kumar0307 · Accepted solution]

Hi @ejr3

Welcome to the HP Support Community. I'd be happy to assist you.

Kindly use HP Scan extended application to scan. Click here to download the file. 

Once it's downloaded and installed, go to Start > All Programs > HP > HP Scan Extended > Run "HP Scan Extended"

Hope this helps! Keep me posted. 

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[ejr3]

This absolutely solved my problem. A suggestion would be to offer this download on the same page as the drivers for this printer.

[Kumar0307]

@ejr3

Thank you for the feedback, it will be forwarded to the respective team in HP. Glad to know that the issue is now resolved. Feel free to contact us with any concerns related to HP products.

Happy to help!