Scanning

[Seekermeister]

I need to send a copy of the sales receipt, that a company is going to reimburse the purchase price of their product to me. But, HP's x64 driver doesn't allow me to use the scanner. I tried doing this with SimpleOCR, which scans fine, but will not allow me to save the image, and if I convert it to text, there are so many errors, that correcting them is nearly impossible. All that I want is to be able to send them an image of the receipt...is that possible?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Use the tool to scan the receipt.

Put it on the viewer. Expand it to it is as readable as possible

Use the Alt-Print Screen to capture the image.

Open up MS Paint
Paste the image and save it.

E-mail the image file.

 

[Seekermeister]

Thanks, it cropped the top and bottom a bit, but I'm going to send it to them anyway, and see if it satisfies them. Unfortunately, I could not get rid of the OCR's GUI, but all of the pertinent data shows properly.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Once you get the image in MS Paint; you can then cut & save the section that you want (crop)

 

[Seekermeister]

I tried this before reading your last post, so I didn't crop it, but the .bmp is about 9.7MBs. I tried using Irfanview to convert to jpg, but it complained that the disk was full. Obviously, it couldn't have been referring to the harddrive, because there is alot of space in it. Even with cropping it, it will still be a huge file. I have never tried my current ISP, but in the past, I was limited to a maximum email size less than this. Of course, I'm on dialup, which is a pain in the neck.

 

[EagleKeeper]

From MS Paint you can save the image in JPG format

 

[Seekermeister]

Yes, and I didn't realize than I could scan it from Paint also. After scanning, cropping and converting, it shrank to 179KBs. Email sent. Thanks.