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On the scan 'page in the HP Printer Assistant" there is no option to scan as a word document. There is only PDF, JPEG, OCR.  The OCR and "everyday scan' don't seem to convert very well to word. As far as I can tell, to convert from a PDF to a Word document, I have to download and pay for an Adobe program.  On my old printer, I had the option to scan as a document.  I don't feel I should have to pay for another program or download another program to scan a document, save it and work on it.

 

Suggestions please? Thanks much!

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Plenty of Free OCR software on the web.


Free OCR

 

http://www.paperfile.net/index.html

 

OCR to Word

 

http://www.ocrtoword.com/

Both work great.

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Do you know why thHP does not provide saving to word any longer?

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Have no idea.

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My anti-virus protection program does not like the OCR download

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