Need to load software for OCR. I lost the original

If you lost the original disk you will need to contact Lexmark. Keep in mind that most of the OCR software they license from other vendors so they may charge you for it.

hi..
The best software for that is abbyy finereader.
home version or professional.
preserve the original image scanner without changing it, staying intact, and places the OCR below the original image and can edit the OCR and image individually, creating a searchable PDF keeping the original image without changes, among other functions.
OCR PDF ICR OMR Software Optical Character Recognition PDF and Linguistic...

Brother has the software and drivers that came on the CD-ROM on their support site: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_top.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc465cn_all . Select your OS and the language in the menus. Download the full software from the first link (at least on the Win7 drivers list) to use all of the features of your printer. If you download just the drivers, the buttons on the multi-function printer will not trigger any action by the computer. If you need the manual, the link is: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/doc/manual_top.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc465cn_all . Again select your language.

However, any third party software that was on the disc will not be available. (The OEM copy of PaperPort SE with OCR was on the CD for Windows systems.) You'll need the original disc or to replace the software with the full version if you use it. (You would need OmniPage to replace PaperPort SE with OCR. PaperPort and PaperPort Pro do not include OCR capabilities.) There are other programs that do this as well.

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells
(Brother does not offer replacement install CDs for printers.)

If you lost your installation disc to install the Lexmark OCR scan software, please contact Lexmark Technical Support Center to request for one.

There are some good OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software , a free one is Google OCR

http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

Or use Microsoft Office built in OCR using Office Document Imaging.

http://www.geckoandfly.com/1295/omnipage-free-ocr-text-scan/

The Lexmark OCR scan software allows you to scan documents to your computer. It enables you to scan to PDF or scan a document and convert to text to edit. The Lexmark OCR scan software is only available in the install disk that came with your printer. Please contact Lexmark technical support for assistance. Thanks.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/346112
from here u can download...

go to the canon web sight and put in the model of you scanner and down load your drivers.

If it didn't come with any OCR software you can find some free OCR software by Googling free OCR. After you have the software installed, it's usually a case of browsing to the scanned image via the software and telling the application to convert the image into a Word document. Some applications have the ability convert to PDF as well. If you prefer a PDF document but your OCR application doesn't support that option, then download some free "print to PDF" software. Typically with this type of software you will not be able to edit a PDF like you will a Word document. Hope I was able to FixYa, please remember to rate my solution. Thanks.

go to this site http://downloads.lexmark.com/perl/downloads/downloads.cgi
put in your country etc.......
choose the x1240 in the driver box.......then search
choose windows vista from the operating dropdown box.......
click on download now and then install the new driver.....
hope that helped