Links To Many Other Applications; Importing Items From Other Applications; Using Scansoft ™ Textbridge ® Ocr (Converting Image Text To Text You Can Edit) - Brother MFC-5100C Owner's Manual

Links to Many Other Applications

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ScanSoft PaperPort
creates a "working link" to them. The Link Bar at the bottom of Desktop view shows icons of those
linked applications. To use a link, drag an item onto one of the icons to start the application
represented by the icon. A typical use of the Link Bar is to select an item and then fax it.
This sample Link Bar shows several applications with links to PaperPort
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If PaperPort does not automatically recognize one of the applications on your computer, you can
manually create a link using the Create New Link command. (See PaperPort
Documentation on the CD-ROM for more information about creating new links.)
Using ScanSoft
(Converting Image Text to Text You Can Edit)
Software by:
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ScanSoft TextBridge
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Function Link Pro on your computer.
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ScanSoft PaperPort
really just a picture of the text) into text that you can edit with a word processing application.
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PaperPort uses the optical character recognition application ScanSoft
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with PaperPort —OR—PaperPort
convert the entire item, or by using the Copy As Text command, you can select only a portion of
the text to convert.
Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts PaperPort
you can use your own OCR application.

Importing Items from Other Applications

In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort
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them to PaperPort (MAX) files in several different ways:
I Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as Microsoft Excel.
I Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows
Format (TIFF).
automatically recognizes many other applications on your computer and
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TextBridge
OCR is installed automatically with PaperPort
can quickly convert the text on a ScanSoft™ PaperPort
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uses your application if it is already on your computer. You can
Using ScanSoftt
OCR
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's built-in OCR application, or
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in a variety of ways and convert
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Bitmap (BMP) or Tag Image File
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PaperPort for Brother/TextBridget
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in the On-Line-
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when you install Multi-
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item (which is
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TextBridge , which comes
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