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Officejet 3830
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Good day all -

 

My scan results are coming out as photos.

How do I change scan settings  (or whatever)

so my scan results  are  Word or similar editable

documents that show up in My Scans folder?

 

Thanks for your kind help.

 

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@ebtdad wrote:

.. so my scan results  are  Word or similar editable documents


@ebtdad 

 

No, your low end printer does not come with an OCR software to do that. You can buy ORC software for your computer and you can scan using normal Scanners including AIO printers to scan as editable text.

 

There are few free OCR software around, they are not perfect. Please try

 

           http://www.paperfile.net/

           https://www.techradar.com/au/best/best-ocr-software

 

Regards.

BH
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