Scanner not detected by Microsoft Office Document Scanning

Click the Start button on your computer.
Access the Control Panel and choose Add or Remove Programs.
Choose Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and select the Change button.
Tick the checkbox of Choose Advanced Customization Of Applications.
Go to Office Tools and select Microsoft Office Document Imaging. Click Scanning OCR --> Indexing Service Filter.
Click Run and install the features you want from the Office Installation CD.
If the problem persists, remove the malware program on your computer.

Hi,
If you try with a sofware wich you get addtional to your scanner, then software type needed to answer it. But you also can try your scanner with Microsoft ffice Document Scanning / Imaging (Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Office Tools)
If it works as expected then your used software is not set as needed, see the software settings.
Sly

I think you need to install the microsoft office document imaging to be able to scan from word, this is what you do assuming that you have windows xp

Windows XP

1. Exit all programs. Tip You may want to print this topic before you exit all programs.
   
2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
3. In Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs , and then click Remove a program.
4. In the Currently installed programs list, click the name of the Microsoft Office edition that you installed or click Microsoft Office Word 2002 (depending on whether you installed Word as part of Office or as an individual program), and then click Change.The Configuration Wizard opens.
5. Click Add or Remove Features, and then click Continue.
6. Under Installation Options, click the plus sign (+) next to Office Tools.
7. Click the arrow next to Microsoft Office Document Imaging, click Run all from my Computer, and then click Continue.

once you have installed this in the insert menu, there should be an option to acquire image from your scanner, assuming that your scanner is properly installed and working.

alternatively you should be able to scan a document and send it to an application (word xp), page 70 of your printer manual will show you how, your manual canbe found here

hope this helps!

Go to Epson official web site and there you can find a software twhic use for scanning on epson, or you can use the next program enter in it as follow :
1. Enter the start menu
2. Enter into Microsoft office tools
3. Enter into Microsoft office document scanning
4. Select your scanner or search it thru the program and than you can make scans from it
For aditional questions please ask

When you install your all in one printer scanner, they ask you to install the assistance software with it u can install that and use the scanner via that software. Or make sure you have installed your device perfectly than go to start programs and to Microsoft office than to Microsoft office tools and than to document imaging scanning option than follow on screen instructions. If you have installed the device it will recognize it automatically.

Do you have Microsoft Office?? If you do try this:

First, gather the paper you want to scan. If your scanner has anADF, you can load a stack of pages at a time. The first time you scan,Document Imaging detects the ADF for you.For more information about the ADF and whether your scanner has one,see the documentation that came with your scanner.
You will also want to sort your paper; if you have color pages thatyou want scanned in color, sort these in a separate stack from theblack and white pages. Load your first page, or first stack of pages(with an ADF) in your scanner.
Then, start Microsoft Office Document Scanning (the scanning component of the Microsoft Office Document Imaging program.)

• On the Windows Start menu, point to All Programs (Programs in Windows 2000), point to Microsoft Office, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Document Scanning.

Tip If Microsoft Office Document Imaging is already running, you can start the scanning component by clicking Scan New Document on the File menu.
Set up your scanning optionsIn the Scan New Document dialog box, do one or more of the following:

• To view your scanned file(s) in Document Imaging after they have been scanned (recommended), select the View file after scanning check box.
• If your scanner is equipped with an ADF, click Scanner, and then select the Use automatic document feeder check box.
• If your scanner is equipped with an ADF and you have double-sided originals, select the Original is double sidedcheck box to scan both the front and back of multiple pages. Place thepages in the feeder so that the page fronts are scanned first.The Microsoft Office Document Scanningdialog box will appear after each scan, allowing you to turn the pagesover and scan the page backs. Document Imaging automatically collatesthe pages in the correct order after scanning is complete.
  
• If you have a true duplex ADF (one that automatically scans both sides of the page), do not select the Original is double sided check box. Instead, in the Scan New Document dialog box, click Scanner, and then select the Show scanner driver dialog before scanning check box. When your scanner driver dialog box appears during scanning, select the proper duplex settings.
• If you want to scan pages manually, select the Prompt for additional pages check box. Office Document Imaging will pause after each page is scanned, allowing you to place the next page in your scanner.
• By default, optical character recognition (OCR) is performed onyour document during the scanning process. Although performing OCR addstime to the scanning process, it also has the following benefits:
  • When you open the scanned document in Microsoft Office DocumentImaging, you can search for recognized text in the document, copyrecognized text in the document to another document or program, andsend recognized text in the document to Microsoft Word, withoutperforming OCR manually.
  • You can have your scanned files saved with an automatic filename based on the first words on the page (this is the default.)
  To turn off OCR during the scanning process (you can perform OCRmanually in the document in Document Imaging after scanning), do thefollowing:
  
  1. In the Scan New Document dialog box, select the preset you want to use, such as Black and white.
  2. Click Preset options, and then click either Create new preset (and then type a name for the preset), or click Edit selected preset.
  3. On the Processing tab in the Preset Options dialog box, clear the Use OCR to recognize the text of the scanned image check box.

Select location, name, or file type for the scanned filesPart of the scanning process is to save a scanned page to a file. Bydefault, when you scan multiple pages, the pages are saved in one file.If you want to save each scanned page as a separate file, select thenaming convention for the scanned files, or change the location or fileformat of the scanned files, do any of the following:

1. In the Scan New Document dialog box, select the preset you want to use, such as Black and white.
2. Click Preset options, and then click either Create new preset (and then type a name for the preset), or click Edit selected preset.
3. Do one or more of the following:
   • To save each scanned page as a separate file, select the Save each page as a separate document check box on the Page tab.
   • To change the location for the saved files, click the Change button on the Output tab, and select a location.
   • To select the way the individual files will be automatically named, click one of the File Name options on the Output tab. (If you have turned off OCR during scanning, you will be unable to use the Auto name based on first words on page option.)
   • To select the file format the scanned pages will be saved in, click the Advanced button on the General tab, and select the options you want.
4. Click OK.

Scan your pages

1. In the Scan New Document dialog box, make sure the preset you want to use is selected, and then click Scan. If you selected the Original is double sided check box or the Prompt for additional pages check box, the Microsoft Office Document Scanningdialog box appears periodically to let you know that the scanner hasfinished. You then have the option to continue scanning (place anotherpage in a scanner that doesn't have an ADF) or turn your page or pagesover to scan the other side. Arrange your page or pages as desired, andselect the option you want to continue scanning.
   
2. When all pages, all sides have been scanned, click Done in the Microsoft Office Document Scanning dialog box.
3. To scan additional pages, review the Get started section above, and then repeat the instructions in this section (Scan your pages.)

Organize pages in the saved file(s)Now that you've finished scanning, it's time to take a look at theresults. If your scanned pages are not open in Document Imaging, do thefollowing:

1. On the Start menu, point to All Programs (Programs in Windows 2000), point to Microsoft Office, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Document Imaging to start Document Imaging.
2. In Document Imaging, click Open on the File menu.
3. Locate the file you want to open (by default, the scanned page(s)is saved to the My Documents folder with an auto filename based on thefirst words on the page, such as Page1of.tif) and then click Open.
4. Repeat steps 2-3 until all of the files you need are open.

You now have an online version of your stack of paper. Here are a few tips to get you started organizing pages.

• Rearrange pages within a document In the thumbnail pane (thumbnail pane: Presents the current scanned document as one or more small images.), select one or more pages to move. Click any selected thumbnail and drag the selection to the new location in the thumbnail pane.
• Copy a page to a new document In the thumbnail pane, select the page you want to copy. On the Page menu, click Copy Page. Switch to the Document Imaging document into which you want to insert the copied page. In the thumbnail pane, select the page that precedes the location where you want to paste the copied page. On the Page menu, click Paste Page.
• Delete a page In the page pane or the thumbnail pane, click the page you want to delete. On the Page menu, click Delete Page.

For more information about scanning or organizing pages, see Microsoft Office Document Imaging Help.
The papers that were once cluttering your desk have now beentransformed into electronic documents. Within these documents, you canarrange pages, move pages to different documents, delete pages, printpages, add annotations, copy text to other Office programs, or send apage to someone in email. And still have room on your desk for yourcoffee.

Scanning a document is the same as scanning a picture, it must be done from within the document app. In this case I'm assuming you are using Microsoft Word.

Scan a picture and insert it in a document@import url(/Office.css); To do this procedure, your device (a scanner or a digital camera) must be connected to your computer and be TWAIN-compatible. You should also make sure that you have installed the device software that supports TWAIN.
Some devices come with more than one software program. If you are not sure what software is TWAIN-compatible, check the device documentation or contact the manufacturer of the device.

1. Set up the picture in the scanning device.
   
   
2. On the Insert menu in Microsoft Word, point to Picture, and then click From Scanner or Camera.
   
   
3. If you have more than one device connected to your computer, select the one you want to use under Device.
   
   
4. Do one of the following: If you want to use a lower resolution or you intend for your document to be viewed on the screen, click Web Quality.
   
5. If you want to use a higher resolution or you intend for your document to be printed, click Print Quality.
   
   
6. Do one of the following: If you're using a scanner and you want to use predefined settings to scan your picture, click Insert.
   If you're using a scanner and you want to change image settings, or if you're using a camera, click Custom Insert. Then follow the instructions that come with the device you're using.
   
7. When the image appears in the document, make any changes you want.
   
   
8. You can use the tools on the Picture toolbar to make changes such as cropping the picture, and adjusting its brightness, contrast, and color.

Note The Insert button might be unavailable when using some scanners because the scanner software doesn't support an automatic scanning. Use the Custom Insert button instead.

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unfortunately the following is from MS Word 2007 Help:

The From Scanner or Camera option for scanning documents and pictures is not available in Microsoft Office Word 2007. Instead, you can use your scanner to scan the document, and then you can save the file to your computer.
After you scan the document, you can use Microsoft Office Document Imaging to create a version of the document that you can edit.
Important The first step is to install Microsoft Office Document Imaging, which is not installed by default.

Sorry.

Do you have microsoft office.
if so, There's a little used program in the  directory on your start/programs/microsoft/microsoft office tools called Microsoft office document and microsoft office scanning.
Also, what software came with the printer/scanner. there's usualy a decent one bundled with them. if possible you may be able to scan to pdf. (pdf reader free from adobe)

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Markbaker, as long as the scanner is installed correctly, then, again, in office or similar programs there should be an option to insert from scanner. click on that and it should bring up the scanner software to complete scan.

From Word 2007 Help:

The From Scanner or Camera option for scanning documents and pictures is not available in Microsoft Office Word 2007. Instead, you can use your scanner to scan the document, and then you can save the file to your computer.
After you scan the document, you can use Microsoft Office Document Imaging to create a version of the document that you can edit.
Important The first step is to install Microsoft Office Document Imaging, which is not installed by default.