Links To Many Other Applications; Using Scansoft™ Textbridge; Ocr; Importing Items From Other Applications - Brother MFC-8500 Owner's Manual

Links to Many Other Applications

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PaperPort automatically recognizes many other applications on your computer
and 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
links.)
Using ScanSoft™ TextBridge
Image Text to Text You Can Edit)
Software by:
ScanSoft™ TextBridge
you install Multi-Function Link
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PaperPort can quickly convert the text on a PaperPort
just a picture of the text) into text that you can edit with a word processing
application. PaperPort
ScanSoft™ TextBridge, which comes with PaperPort
your application if it is already on your computer. You can 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
OCR application, or you can use your own OCR application.

Importing Items from Other Applications

In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort
of ways and convert them to PaperPort
• Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as Microsoft Excel.
• Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows
Tag Image File Format (TIFF).
U S I N G S C A N S O F T™ P A P E R P O R T
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Help for more information about creating new
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OCR is automatically installed with PaperPort
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Pro on your computer.
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uses the optical character recognition application
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(MAX) files in several different ways:
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F O R B R O T H E R A N D S C A N S O F T™ T E X T B R I D G E
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OCR (Converting
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item (which is really
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—OR—PaperPort
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Bitmap (BMP) or
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when
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uses
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's built-in
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in a variety
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