If you want to create an electronic image of a letter, an article, or any other type of printed item, you can use the Microsoft Office Document Scanning program to scan the item. By default, when the item is being scanned, the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature is automatically activated so that when you’re viewing the document in Microsoft Office Document Imaging after completing the scan, you can also send the content of the document to Microsoft Word for editing.
With the document in the scanner, and with the scanner turned on and properly configured for your computer, start Microsoft Office Document Scanning from the Office Tools folder of the Windows Start menu to display the Scan New Document dialog box.
If you want to customize the scan, click Preset Options, and, from the drop-down menu that appears, choose to create a new setting or click to edit the selected preset option.
If you have more than one scanner configured on your computer, or if you want to use the scanner’s driver dialog box to make your settings, click the Scanner button. In the Choose Scanner dialog box, select the scanner you’re using, specify whether you want to show the scanner’s driver dialog box, and click OK.
If you’re scanning more than one document, click Continue. When you’ve finished scanning, click Done.
Review and save your document or documents in the Microsoft Document Imaging window that appears.
Microsoft Office Document Scanning requires that your scanner use a Windows Imaging Acquisition (WIA) driver to scan your documents. If your scanner uses a TWAIN driver, use the program that came with the scanner to scan and save the images as .tif or TIFF files, and then open them in Microsoft Office Document Imaging.