Integrating Readiris 17 with Color Laserjet mfp

[Tom1946]

Is it possible to integrate my copy of Readiris 17 with my HP Color LaserJet MFP M281cdw, so as to scan a document and have it OCR'd as part of the process?

[Betty0610]

@Tom1946

Welcome to the HP Support Community.

Unfortunately, your Printer will not support it: https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c03945971

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[Tom1946]

After I put up my original post, my software updated unexpectedly (at least by me). I am now running

Software version: 044.007.2712.2022

Printer Driver: 8.0.1329.6508

AND, now the scan dialog presents me with a new choice that wasn't present before:<save as editable text>. However, it seems his only permits creation of a new document in rtf format. What I'm interested in is an editable pdf. In other words I want to preserve an image of the scanned document.

Is this <save as editable text> actually new with the software update? But that's all it does, is permit the creation of an rtf document?

To do what I want, I take it I have to run the Readiris program to scan the document and create a pdf, then open my pdf program to work on the document? Do you think that's right?

Thank you.

[Betty0610]

What you're doing is right:

To scan your documents:

· Simply load documents onto the scanner flatbed or into the automatic document feeder (ADF). 

· Select Scan in the Readiris home window, under Scanning options. 

· Your document will be scanned and instantly appear in the Readiris application home window.

To send or save your documents: 

· Once your scanned document appears in the Readiris application, select Recognize + Save under Recognition options to send your document to an application such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, or Internet Explorer, where you can work with your scans as though you typed them in by hand!

Let me know if this helps.

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