Links To Many Other Applications; Importing Items From Other Applications; Exporting Items In Other Formats - Brother MFC-860 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.
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
your computer.
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ScanSoft PaperPort can quickly convert the text on a ScanSoft
just a picture of the text) into text that you can edit with a word processing application. PaperPort
uses the optical character recognition application ScanSoft
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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:
Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as Microsoft Excel.
Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows
Format (TIFF).

Exporting Items in Other Formats

You can export or save PaperPort
or self-viewing. For example, to create a file for an Internet Web site, export it as a JPEG file. Web
pages often use JPEG files for displaying images.
automatically recognizes many other applications on your computer and
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TextBridge
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ScanSoft
OCR is automatically installed when you install ScanSoft
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uses your application if it is already on your computer. You can
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items in several popular file formats, such as BMP, JPEG, TIFF,
Using ScanSoft
OCR
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PaperPort
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TextBridge
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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/TextBridge
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in the On-Line-
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