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  • Scan single or multi-page documents.

  • Produce editable text from a scanned document using OCR .

  • Copy and export scanned text and Images to Microsoft Word .

  • View a scanned document (the software does not permit navigating among multiple documents).

  • Search for text within scanned documents.

  • Easily reorganize scanned document pages.

  • Send scanned documents via e-mail or Internet Fax .

  • Annotate scanned documents including using ink on a Tablet PC .


While the native file format of MODI seems to be MDI , MODI can read and write a wide variety of TIFF files, and can save OCR text into a TIFF file.


PROGRAMMABILITY

Via COM , MODI provides an Object Model based on 'document' and 'image' (page) objects. One feature that has elicited particular interest on the Web is MODI's ability to convert scanned images to text under program control, using its built-in OCR engine.

The MODI object model is accessible from development tools that support the Component Object Model (COM) by using a reference to the Microsoft Office Document Imaging 11.0 Type Library. The MODI Viewer control is accessible from any development tool that supports ActiveX controls by adding Microsoft Office Document Imaging Viewer Control 11.0.

The MODI control became accessible in the Office 2003 release; while the associated programs were included in earlier Office XP, the object model was not exposed to programmatic control.


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