Where is the OCR in Microsoft Office 2007
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Why pay for Omnipage when OCR text scan comes bundled with Microsoft Office 2007? A friend of mine discovered that Microsoft 2007 does not come with OCR or better known as Document and Imaging, which is not quite true, the problem is due to the default installation with Microsoft Office 2007, OCR or Document and Imaging does not installed itself in the default installation.
Hold your horses, you don’t need to uninstall and reinstall Microsoft Office 2007, simple hit the ‘add and remove’ button in Control Panel and select ‘Change’
Select the ‘add and remove feature’ radio button and select ‘next’
In the following dialog box, select ‘Office Tool’ > ‘Microsoft Office Document Imaging’ > ‘ Scanning, OCR and Indexing Service Filter’ and under the drop down list choose ‘run from computer’ and proceed with the installation.
There you go, now you’ve just enabled Microsoft Office 2007 OCR, and its free. Visit this post on how to use Microsoft Office 2007 OCR text scan.
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Rory Tate
June 17th, 2009I can’t thank you enough for the tip on opening the OCR feature in the otherwise piece of #$%$ application by Microsoft. I just cannot believe these losers. They are the equivalent of General Motors. Let’s hope they go the same way.
Sorry for the rant.
Rory
H4RRY
July 31st, 2009Wow, I almost install a third party software for this OCR feature.. Luckily I found this page. Many Thanks!
Rain
August 20th, 2009Well, thanks! I hope this works – I’d have never known that I already hab an OCR on my pc…
Julie
September 27th, 2009Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I have given up with the HP Photo Essentials software (installation problems, driver problems, uninstall problems… the list goes on) and totally forgot this software was ‘hidden’ in MS Office. Just spent an entire week stressing over OCR and thanks to your posting, I can get back to real life again ;-)
Peter Boyd
October 4th, 2009Great help – clear instructions from someone who knows what they are doing.
Matt McLaurine
October 15th, 2009Thanks for the help. This will save me quite a bit of re-typing!