How to scan Documents into Word in order to Edit the Document

  1. Open the Microsoft Office Document Scanning icon by double clicking it on the desktop


  2. NOTE: if you do not see the icon, go to start/programs/Microsoft office/MS office tools/MS office document scanning
    1. Place the document either face down on the glass, or face up in the document feeder
    2. The scanning window will pop up. Click on “scanner” and choose the Microtek ScanWizard 5 as your selection


  3. Click ok in that window
  4. On the Scanning window, choose your preset for scanning (Color, Black and White, etc…)
    1. Be sure that “prompt for additional pages” and “view file after scanning” are checked
  5. Click on “Scan”


  6. The scanner will now scan what is on the glass/in the ADF
    1. If you have additional pages, insert them and press “continue”
  7. Press “done” if you are complete
  8. The OCR window will now open, and your scanning window will still be displayed
  9. Press “close” on the small scanning window
  10. Be sure that the pages you want are highlighted to the left, and now you may press the “send to word” icon on the toolbar
    1. If the icon is not there, click tools/send to word


  11. A window will popup.
    1. Choose which items to send to Word (All Pages is the best)
    2. Make sure maintain pictures in output is checked, if you want to maintain the pictures (does not work 100% of the time)
    3. Browse to find your default folder to save it to (IE: your jump drive, network drive, my documents…)
    4. Click ok


  12. Word will now open with your document.
  13. YOU WILL HAVE TO EDIT the document, as OCR does not scan perfectly.
    1. You may save it and do that at your computer
    2. Or edit in the scanning room and save again
    3. Make sure to save your Word doc again, and you are now done!