The thing about the text in question was - it was a VBA script which makes
Word 2007 do text-to-speech (Microsoft dropped text-to-speech from word 2007
for some reason), so it was like, code type stuff that Word somehow started
to 'read'. I'm not convinced that's the explanation, but it's an intriguing
theory. I suspect as you suggest it was down to file characteristics.
Mike p
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Late - I know (have been away) - but I wouldn't have thought that a jpeg
could be scanned into OCR as there is too much compression in the graphics
file. A tiff should work OK - I would have thought.
I don't understand why a pdf wouldn't work even if it is code - after all
characters are characters and Word isn't actually trying to read it, just
recognise the characters used.
So - basically I am no help either!!
