Scan a document, need to make a template in Microsoft Office Word 2003?

Question

I have scanned the document in Microsoft Office Document Imaging, I have saved it in Microsoft Office Word 2003 as a template, but when I open it and try to type something into it, well it acts like its a picture with the box around it, what am I doing wrong? I have read everything I can on this, I cant find the answer, please help! I have more to scan and make into templates!

Answer 1

If you wanted text you could edit, you should have scanned it as OCR (optical character recognition). That would have scanned it and opened in a Word document. Perhaps you can still do it.

Sometimes when I download a PDF form which looks too complex for OCR scanning, I scan to save an image on disk.
It will come out as a jpg.

First, resize it to fit the page.
Then, right-click on it and select "send backward"
Now, create a text box with the Drawing toolbar.
right-click the text box and select order, "bring to the front"
right-click the text box and select "format text box"
cl on Layout
cl "in front of text"

Drag the text box whever you want it.

Answer 2

First you will need Adobe Acrobat Professional to do any writable stuff to PDF ($350-450). Does OCR for you. And even after you buy it, its going to be very complex. Id suggest just starting over in word, typing the whole thing in.