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‎04-09-2017 02:13 AM

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Product: HP ENVY 4521
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit)

With my old HP printer (HP Photosmart C4180 All-in-One) I could scan the text of a document to a TXT-file. Now I have a HP ENVY 4521, but now I cannot scan the text anymore. Do I need extra software?

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‎04-09-2017 12:24 PM

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Hi,
The software provided for your device does not include OCR functionality
As you may find listed within the Scanning Specification, text files as TXT or RTF are not supported by the HP software:

Scan file format - TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PDF

http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-envy-4520-all-in-one-printer

You may use any 3rd part OCR solution to scan as editable text.

If you have Microsoft Office suite there are good chances the office suite provide this kind of capabilities:

Office 2007 or 2010:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/

Office 2003:
http://agsci.psu.edu/it/how-to/perform-ocr-with-microsoft-office-2003-document-imaging

Regards,
Shlomi



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‎04-09-2017 12:24 PM

HP Recommended

Hi,
The software provided for your device does not include OCR functionality
As you may find listed within the Scanning Specification, text files as TXT or RTF are not supported by the HP software:

Scan file format - TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PDF

http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-envy-4520-all-in-one-printer

You may use any 3rd part OCR solution to scan as editable text.

If you have Microsoft Office suite there are good chances the office suite provide this kind of capabilities:

Office 2007 or 2010:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/

Office 2003:
http://agsci.psu.edu/it/how-to/perform-ocr-with-microsoft-office-2003-document-imaging

Regards,
Shlomi



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