Command line options

Microsoft Office Document Imaging

Command line options

You can use command line options when you start Microsoft Office Document Imaging from either the Run command (Start menu) or from a command prompt.

Command	Result
mspview <path:filename.tif>	Starts Office Document Imaging and opens the specified file.
mspview -r <path:filename.tif>	Starts Office Document Imaging and opens the specified file in Reading view.
mspview -o <path:filename.tif>	Starts Office Document Imaging, performs optical character recognition (OCR) on the specified file, and then saves the file with the new OCR text. This command has no effect if OCR has already been performed on the file. This command can be used for batch processing when you need to recognize text in multiple TIFF files. Notes If the image is monochrome, it will be compressed in TIFF CCITT G4 format. If the image is grayscale or color, it will be compressed in TIFF 6.0 JPEG format. If the image is over 900 dots per inch (dpi), it will be saved at 900 dpi.
mspview -f <path:filename.tif>	Starts Office Document Imaging, performs OCR on the specified file, and then saves the file with the new OCR text. Use this command if you want to perform OCR on a file that has already had OCR performed on it. This command can be used for batch processing when you need to recognize text in multiple Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files. Notes If the image is monochrome, it will be compressed in TIFF CCITT G4 format. If the image is grayscale or color, it will be compressed in TIFF 6.0 JPEG format. If the image is over 900 dpi, it will be saved at 900 dpi.

For example, the following command opens Mypic.tif in Reading view.

mspview -r "C:\My Documents\mypic.tif"

Return values

Microsoft Office Document Imaging returns the following informational and error values.

Return value	Meaning
0	Command successful.
1	File already has OCR information.
3	Could not locate application.
4606	Unable to open file. Check file name and permissions.
4610	The file is not a valid Microsoft Office Document Imaging file.
4645	Microsoft Office Document Imaging does not support this type of TIFF file.
4648	Unable to save file. Check disk space and permissions.
4654	Cannot recognize text in this document. OCR was not successful.
4655	Cannot perform this operation due to system resource constraints.
4657	There is not enough memory to complete this operation.
4661	You do not have sufficient permissions to open or save this file.
4662	Unable to read file due to disk or network error.
4663	Not enough temporary disk space to complete the operation.
4665	A component of the application is missing. Please reinstall the application.
4673	There are too many instances of Microsoft Office Document Imaging running. Please close one or more and then retry this operation.
4678	Unable to complete operation. Check access permissions on the file.
4679	Unable to complete operation. If this is a network file, network connection may have failed.
4681	This file is read-only.
4682	Unable to complete operation. The file is locked for exclusive use by another user. Please try again later.
4683	Unable to copy file to local drive. Check disk space and permissions.
4684	Unable to open document. If this is a Web document, check your connection and try again.
4685	File already has OCR text information.
4692	Unable to save <filename>. This file is in use by another user.
4699	Microsoft Office Document Imaging requires the system locale and the application language to be the same.
4700	Error completing operation. Could not create temporary file.
4701	This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.
9009	Bad command line argument.

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