Jpeg Documents??

[Giggsie]

I have scanned documents on to my laptop but they come up as jpegs. When I try to open them it comes up (open with) photo programs. tried one to open but it comes up so small I can't read them, How can I change them to open with open office or that kind of program?

[CrapAtCryptics]

You are scanning them as images - if you use an OCR option you will get it as a document. Most printer / scanners have this option.

[Giggsie]

Thank you I will try scanning again and will look for that option.

[Giggsie]

Can't see the option on the printer. But noticed I have saved as jpeg others were save as gif tiff and I think png what should I save as please?

[Giggsie]

Printer is an HP envy 5530

[TonyV]

Shows in the manual how to scan pages 39 ~ 41. You can scan as a PDF file and insert into Open Office

[Giggsie]

Ok thank you

[Buenchico]

A scanner effectively takes a photograph of a document, typically resulting in a jpeg image (although, as TonyV has suggested, you can change that to pdf format). All that your scanner 'sees' is blocks of different colours, which make up the photograph. It can't 'see' letters or words, so it's impossible for it (working on its own) to produce a text file.

So, as CAC suggests, you need to use OCR ('optical character recognition') software to examine the 'photograph' and to try to work out which letters and words are on the page. Many all-in-one printers are supplied with suitable software but it will be installed on your computer, not on your scanner/printer itself. So you need to look through the list of programs on your computer (probably under the make of your printer) to see if there's an OCR one available. If there is then, obviously, that should be what you use.

Otherwise you can try a free OCR program such as FreeOCR
http://www.paperfile.net/
or an online conversion service such as this one:
https://www.onlineocr.net/

[Giggsie]

Thank you Buenchico will check all out.