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Optical character recognition
processing format used to save the file must be installed
on your system; and you must have an association
between that application and the file extension that is
used with your saved file.
Associating an application with a file extension
You must have an association between the application and the file
extension that is used with your saved file. Many different applica-
tions use the same file extension. If there is no association, you can
create an association.
To create or change a file association:
Double-click the My Computer icon on your Windows 95
desktop.
On the View menu, click Options, and then click the File
Types tab.
To create a new file type, click New Type. To modify the
settings for an existing file type, select the type, and then
click Edit.
Specify a description for the file type and the filename
extension associated with this type of file.
Click New to define an action for this file type. If you are
modifying an existing type, you can click the command in the
Action box that you want to modify, and select Edit.
Specify the action that you want to define, such as Open or
Print, and the command that should run to complete this
action.
Defining an area of a page to be converted to text
You can convert a selected area of an image to text by using the
Area Selection Tool to define a portion of your image. The results
of this OCR operation can be saved directly to a file or copied to the
Windows Clipboard and pasted into any Windows application.
To define the area you want to convert to text:
