Brother International DCP1000 Users Manual - English - Page 79

Links to Many Other Applications

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Links to Many Other Applications PaperPort® automatically recognizes many other applications on your computer and creates a "working link" to them. The Link Bar at the bottom of Desktop view shows icons of those linked applications. To use a link, drag an item onto one of the icons to start the application represented by the icon. This sample Link Bar shows several applications with links to PaperPort®. If PaperPort® does not automatically recognize one of the applications on your computer, you can manually create a link using the Create New Link command. (See PaperPort® Help for more information about creating new links.) Using ScanSoft™ TextBridge® OCR (Converting Image Text to Text You Can Edit) Software by: ScanSoft™ TextBridge® OCR is automatically installed with PaperPort® when you install Multi-Function Link® Pro Suite on your computer. PaperPort® can quickly convert the text on a PaperPort® item (which is really just a picture of the text) into text that you can edit with a word processing application. PaperPort® uses the optical character recognition application ScanSoft™ TextBridge, which comes with PaperPort®-OR-PaperPort® uses your application if it is already on your computer. You can convert the entire item, or by using the Copy As Text command, you can select only a portion of the text to convert. Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts PaperPort®'s built-in OCR application, or you can use your own OCR application. Importing Items from Other Applications In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort® in a variety of ways and convert them to PaperPort® (MAX) files in several different ways: • Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as Microsoft Excel. • Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows® Bitmap (BMP) or Tag Image File Format (TIFF). USING SCANSOFT™ PAPERPORT® FOR BROTHER AND SCANSOFT™ TEXTBRIDGE® 9 - 3

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USING SCANSOFT
PAPERPORT
®
FOR BROTHER AND SCANSOFT
TEXTBRIDGE
®
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Links to Many Other Applications
PaperPort
®
automatically recognizes many other applications on your computer
and creates a
working link
to them. The Link Bar at the bottom of Desktop
view shows icons of those linked applications. To use a link, drag an item onto
one of the icons to start the application represented by the icon.
This sample Link Bar shows several applications with links to PaperPort
®
.
If PaperPort
®
does not automatically recognize one of the applications on your
computer, you can manually create a link using the
Create New Link
command. (See
PaperPort
®
Help
for more information about creating new
links.)
Using ScanSoft
TextBridge
®
OCR (Converting
Image Text to Text You Can Edit)
Software by:
ScanSoft
TextBridge
®
OCR is automatically installed with PaperPort
®
when
you install Multi-Function Link
®
Pro Suite on your computer.
PaperPort
®
can quickly convert the text on a PaperPort
®
item (which is really
just a picture of the text) into text that you can edit with a word processing
application. PaperPort
®
uses the optical character recognition application
ScanSoft
TextBridge, which comes with PaperPort
®
OR
PaperPort
®
uses
your application if it is already on your computer. You can convert the entire
item, or by using the
Copy As Text
command, you can select only a portion of
the text to convert.
Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts PaperPort
®
s built-in
OCR application, or you can use your own OCR application.
Importing Items from Other Applications
In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort
®
in a variety
of ways and convert them to PaperPort
®
(MAX) files in several different ways:
Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as Microsoft Excel.
Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows
®
Bitmap (BMP) or
Tag Image File Format (TIFF).