HP C5580 Printer Has On Board OCR

Got a new HP C5580 All In One Printer this week. Have several old genealogical publications scanned as images. Needed to scan some with an OCR and was pleasantly surprised to see my printer also includes the OCR function. Works well enough for my purposes. Right now very pleased with this printer.

bschmidt86,
There is no need to buy anything. Simply download the full Snow Leopard compatible solution from [HP.com|http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=o j-74785-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=219&product=3575276]. If your device originally came with OCR capabilities, they will be exposed by HP Scan. Simply do a Document scan, and the save box will give you options with multiple OCR options in it (PDF, txt, html, rtf).
Do yourself a favor though, and before you install the software, run the HP Uninstaller (located in /Applications/Hewlett-Packard) and when the Uninstall screen comes up, press and hold Shift-Command-Control-Option while clicking on Uninstall. Say yes to the scary message. Restart the machine for good measure, and then install the solution mentioned above.
Launch HP Scan, and enjoy!
Just trying to help.
Andrew

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