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TechTalk: Managing Legacy Files
Microsoft Word can open Word,
WordPerfect 5x and 6x, WordPerfect DOS, Works, Windows Write (wri)
and Text (txt) files. If your document was created in a program that
Word does not import, you can scan the hardcopy.
Many scanners have
an Optical Character Reader, OCR. The OCR program will acquire the image from the
scanner and present words that need your interpretation.
In this example, the word “name”
picked up some background smudges and rendered the marks as “n.ame”.
When the scan and proof reading are
done, the file can be saved as a Microsoft Word document, or as an
image.
This will be a continuing challenge to
update legacy information. This lesson looked at two options:
converting files in Microsoft Word, and scanning hard copy. That's
enough for now.
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