Scan documents or images

@PA WOODCHUCK.

Hi.

This feature was removed in Office 2013 but can be added to 365 through VBA.

The Scan Button will be on the Insert tab of the Ribbon.

1. Part 1 - Scanning in Word
2. Part 2 - Scanning in Word

-James

PA WOODCHUCK said:

I'll look at that, but maybe above my skill level to make it work??

Most scanners come with appropriate scanning software. Surely it is easier to just scan using that, then insert scanned picture into word?

This is from Office 2016/Word 16 and its Help [latest version I have]:

Scan text into Word
The best way to scan a document into Microsoft Word is to use our free Office Lens app on your smartphone or tablet. It uses your device's camera to capture the document and can save directly into Word format as an editable document. It's available for free on iPad, iPhone, Windows Phone and Android.
If you don't want to use Office Lens, the next best option is to scan your document as a PDF using your scanner's native software and then open that PDF file in Word.
1. In Word click File > Open.
2. Navigate to where your PDF file is stored, and open it.
3. Word will open a dialog box confirming that it is going to attempt to import the text of the PDF file. Click OK to confirm, and Word will import the text. Word will do its best to preserve the formatting of the text as it appears in the PDF.

Some scanner programs also allow saving directly to office formats e.g.


Also depends if you need the text OCR'd.