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Microsoft Office Document Imaging

Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Document Imaging is the process of scanning paper documents, converting them to digital images that are then stored on CD, DVD, or other magnetic storage.

Document Imaging is available in Microsoft Office Access 2003 (Access 2003 Tutorial), Excel 2003 (Excel to PDF), OneNote 2003 (OneNote Password Recovery), Outlook 2003 (AOL to Outlook), PowerPoint 2003 (PPT to DVD), Publisher 2003 (Publisher To Adobe InDesign), Word 2003 (PDF to Word).

Microsoft Word With Microsoft Office Document Imaging, you can scan paper documents and convert them to digital images that you can save in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) (Tagged Image File Format (TIFF): A high-resolution, tag-based graphics format. TIFF is used for the universal interchange of digital graphics.) or Microsoft Document Imaging Format (MDI) (Microsoft Document Imaging Format (MDI): A high resolution, tag-based graphics format, based on the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) used for digital graphics.) to your computer's hard disk, network server, CD, or DVD.

Microsoft Office Document Imaging also gives you the ability to perform optical character recognition (OCR) either as part of scanning a document, or while you work with a TIFF or MDI file.

Microsoft Office Document Imaging actually has two components - a scanning component and an imaging component - listed separately in the Windows Start menu as Microsoft Office Document Scanning and Microsoft Office Document Imaging.

  • Scan single or multi-page documents.
  • Copy and export scanned text and images to Microsoft Word.
  • View a scanned document (the software does not permit navigating among multiple documents).
  • Search for text within scanned documents.
  • Easily reorganize scanned document pages.
  • Send scanned documents via e-mail or Internet fax.
  • Annotate scanned documents including using ink on a Tablet PC.


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