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OCR can work on any Scanner, I Believe that the Software is what converts to OCR. I Have A CanoScan N659U. Using Microsoft Office Document Imaging software scanned 150 sheets of genealogy that I do not have to retype. OCR has been around sense about 1928 however, not until about 1974 was the principal used with Flatbed scanners. They do have a few Open source OCR scanning software's available, and they have serval online OCR services. I Prefer the MicroSoft Office 2007 Document Imaging Software myself.
Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR. It is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. In simple terms means your "scanner software" for your scanner device may be corrupted if the "OCR" is missing due to several reasons eg. fFles changes due to installations of software, Malware, Spwares or virus on you PC, etc....
Try uninstalling & reinstalling the Device setup i.e. "Drivers & Software" from the CD/DVD that comes with your Device.
Yes, but you have to use a special program called an "OCR" (Optical Character Recognizer) which will "read" the document from the scan. A scanner only produces a picture of a document, and it requries special software to "read" that image and make it editable.
The LIDE 70 comes with OMNIPAGE SE (special edition) which will work for simple documents. For more complex documents, you may need to buy the full edition of OMNIPAGE or another OCR package like FineReader. It is also built in fto software like OneNote and Evernote.
The top 5 free OCR tools are here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-free-ocr-software-tools-to-convert-your-images-into-text-nb/
You need a OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program to convert your scanned text pages (which are images) to text. You printer software doesn't include such a program. There are a number of commercial programs available -- I.R.I.S, ReadIris, Abbyy Fine Reader, Adobe Acrobat (not the free Acrobat Reader), just to mention a few -- and also some free programs (SimpleOCR came first in a Google search). Also, some computers also come with a limited version of these programs installed. I have an HP that came with a version of Readiris
Sometimes companies only support only the basic drivers. The OCR software is on the CD (s) that came with the printer. Suggestion. Try to order the original CD from Lexmark., or search Ebay for programs that have OCR capability. You can use OCR programs from other vendors as long as they are stand-a-lone programs. Just make sure you have the original disc so as not to infringe on copyright privileges.
Note: you can buy OCR programs. Check Ebay and Amazon. They are usually better that the programs that come on the OEM disk.
If you got this scanner to work with Windows 98, the scanner is an antique. New scanners are so much better, my first suggestion is to get a new scanner, one that works with Vista as well as XP. It will have all new software that comes with it. Otherwise you could purchase, new software such as Nuance Easy Media Creator 10 Suite, right now you can get it with Paperport 11 added in for FREE. However consider the cost of a new scanner, versus the cost of buying new software only, and running it on the old scanner.
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