Talk:Microsoft Office Document Imaging

In the pursuit of useful OCR of BMPs & script
There seems to be an avoidance of the nearly possible, with the 'advertised' OCR capability in Ms Office XP. The remarkably good dynamic (real-time only) 'handwriting recognition' (bound with the poor 'speech recognition'), seems unable to do the obvious (and in my experience) frequently needed task of OCR to convert an easily and frequently obtained image (BMP, PNG, ...) file of text into real text(TXT) file, for a multitude of purposes, such as space saving, indexing, editing, etc. Is this a good place to discuss practical (for the typical home user) OCR, or at least place a reference to such a place? 173.79.132.74 (talk) 02:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

How do you create searchable PDFs from Microsoft Office Document Imaging?
I use PDFPrinters, the generated PDF is not searchable. e.g. if you do Find "Bob". It finds nothing even though it is in the document. Is this a problem with the program or the PDF generators? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.150.46 (talk) 22:52, 21 August 2008 (UTC) -a leading blank char. prevents proper formatting- <173.79.132.74 (talk) 01:45, 21 June 2009 (UTC)>

MODI builtin OCR replacement wanted
Replacement of this quick OCR function for scanned documents, removed from 2010 version of MS Office, is to be found. Any idea is welcome, either for TIF files or PDFs. dwdp (talk) 13:02, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Alternatives to MODI
I believe this section titled "Alternatives to MODI for Office 2010 Users" is in violation of WP:NOTADVERT, WP:NOTHOWTO and WP:NOTLINKFARM. It advertises other products with external links and all, while Microsoft Office 2010 users do not need an alternative at all. OCR modules are moved into Microsoft Word itself and Windows versions that Office 2010 supports can all do the scanning by themselves. While we are at it, some alternatives have Wikipedia articles of their own. Why advertise external programs when we can use Wikilinks?

Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 13:18, 13 December 2012 (UTC)


 * It looked more how-to to me than advert, but either way seems like an obvious delete. User:CorporateM 21:20, 17 December 2012 (UTC)


 * There are companies that have large TIF file archives with embedded OCR information. These business actually do need an alternative in order not to loose their data base! I work as a consultant with a few of such companies and still looking for an alternative. As for my personal experience I have tried all proposed products and find them interesting but still none is actually a complete alternative, except for installing MODI from and old version of Office (but this cannot last forever) so I believe this section is still needed and open. --dwdp (talk) 06:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Link not working
The external link on the page for "Office - Document Imaging Microsoft online help for MODI users" is invalid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.253.16.1 (talk) 20:17, 13 December 2012 (UTC)