Help with computer

**p38arover** · 9th January 2010, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

I have a scanner which I need some help with. I have scanned a normal sized business card to a computer file. The scanned file is 8.52 meg in size!! It is a business card for Christ's sake.

I have only had this machine for nine months and have not used it much, as like most computer stuff the instructions that come with them are for Bill Gates type people.

I wish to to be able to play with this like I can with photos, eg downsize the file size, enlarge it, touch up (it is very old) and send as an email etc.

Can anyone help me?

Dave.

Dave, which scanner and what software are you using? Maybe we can steer you to the settings change area.

**d2dave** · 9th January 2010, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by hoadie72

Scanned images are exactly that, they're images, so normally you can't edit them in a word processor. To do that, you need what's called an OCR - Optical Character Recognition - program. It converts the image into text.

To be honest it sounds like a lot of effort unless you have a massive pile of business cards to scan, in which case, you might want to invest in a dedicated business card scanner?

In this case I just had one I wanted scanned and then enlarged to make it easy to read.

Quite often I want to scan a newspaper or magazine article to keep for future reference and enlarge it to make it easier to read.

For example if I scan some thing which is 100 120mm it comes up on my screen the same size.

Dave.

**d2dave** · 9th January 2010, 02:15 PM

Ron,
It is a HP Office jet J6488 all in one. The software is what came with it when I bought it.

Dave.

**slug_burner** · 9th January 2010, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

Ron,
It is a HP Office jet J6488 all in one. The software is what came with it when I bought it.

Dave.

Might have "HP PrecisionScan Pro" as the interface software or some later version of the same. I have this on a fairly old flatbed scanner so it might be that yours is similar. Try the following:

Start by selecting the Scan menu and use the Preview option. This will warm the lamp and produce a scan and then allow you to select the area that you want to concentrate on by dragging a rectangle out over the business card.

Then use the Output Type menu to select either True Colour if you want a JPG image or Text if you want the OCR software to convert the image to a text file.

Hope this helps

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