Copy and paste text and images

You can copy selected areas of text in the page pane or in Reading view. When you make a text selection, only entire words are selected. Words that extend beyond the selection rectangle are selected in their entirety. If you paste text back into a Microsoft Document Imaging document, the text is inserted as an annotation.

1. On the View toolbar, click Select .
2. In the page pane, select the area you want to copy.
3. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
4. Do one of the following:
   • To paste the copied text back into a Microsoft Document Imaging document as an annotation, select the page you want the annotation to appear on, and then click Paste on the Edit menu.
   • To paste the copied text into another program, switch to that program, and then use that program's paste command.

Notes

• You cannot copy text until optical character recognition (OCR) has been performed on the document.
• Text that has been added as an annotation is not included when you copy text to another program unless you have made annotations permanent in the document and then performed OCR on the document.

You can copy images of selected areas of the page in the page pane. If you paste an image back into a Microsoft Document Imaging document, the image is inserted as an annotation.

1. On the View toolbar, click Select .
2. In the page pane, select the area you want to copy.
3. On the Edit menu, click Copy Image.
4. Do one of the following:
   • To paste the copied image back into a Microsoft Document Imaging document as an annotation, select the page you want the annotation to appear on, and then click Paste on the Edit menu.
   • To paste the copied image into another program, switch to that program, and then use that program's paste command.

Note  Annotations are included when you use the Copy Image command.

You can paste annotations back into a Microsoft Document Imaging document, or as a picture into another program.

1. On the Annotations toolbar, click Select Annotations .
2. Do one of the following:
   • To select a single annotation, click the annotation.
   • To select multiple annotations, drag over the annotations.
3. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
4. Do one of the following:
   • To paste the annotations back into a Microsoft Document Imaging document, select the page you want the annotations to appear on, and then click Paste on the Edit menu.
   • To paste the annotations into another program, switch to that program, and then use that program's paste command.

You can copy all the text on a page or an image of the entire page.

1. In the thumbnail pane, select the page you want to copy.
2. On the Edit menu, click Select All.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To copy all the text, click Copy on the Edit menu.
   • To copy an image of the entire page, click Copy Image on the Edit menu.
4. Switch to the program into which you want to paste the copied text or image, and then use that program's paste command.

You can copy an image from another program and paste it into Microsoft Office Document Imaging as a new page or on an existing page as an annotation.

1. In the other program, copy the image you want to paste.
2. Do one of the following:
   • To paste the image as a new page, click the thumbnail in the thumbnail pane that precedes the location where you want to paste the copied page, and then click Paste Page on the Page menu.
   • To paste the image as an annotation, click the page you want the image to appear on, and then click Paste on the Edit menu.