I need to copy a word document however when I scan it, it makes it into a jpg document. What can do I fix this in order to be able to edit and save the scanned document as a word document?

Dear
you can choose the document size.scanning resolution.color. and the format on which you want to save.ie. jpg.bmp.pdf etc.
also you can choose multiple scan option to make a multi page pdf file. there is another option ocr. optical character recognition. through which you can scan aword document to open and able to edit in ms word application.
these are few.
thanks.

.PNG stands for "Portable Network Graphics". Sounds like the sender may have scanned the document, and sent the scanned document to you? Scans will come out as either .png, .jpg, or .pdf formats.

If the file is a .png, you won't be able to edit in MS Word.

Another thing to check - Make sure when you are working on a Word Document, you are saving it as a .doc file.

• Open MS Word Document
• Do your editing
• Click on the "Fille" button, and then select "save as" option
• In the window that appears, next to the "save as type" wording click on the down triangle to see different formats to save. Select ".doc"

Bottom line... tell whomever is sending the emails with attachments, to send you the MS Word file, not a scanned file.

You cannot save a scanned document as a Word document.
You need to save it as a jpg image file first and the use a image to text/word conversion program to make a word document.
http://www.software112.com/search-program/1/convert+jpg+to+word.html

you'll want it to save as a .TIF or .JPG file. In order to edit, you will need some kind of photo editting software. Windows paint is probably already on your computer, but Adobe makes some good photo editting software as do some greeting card creator programs. Then you can use the software to edit the color, focus, brightness, etc. There's a free online program called PIKNIK that will also let you upload photos and edit them online. Let me know which way you want to go and I can give you more details.

Scanners put a graphic image on your computer that is a "picture" as far as the computer is concerned and therefore, you cannot edit text because it is seen as pixels and not characters. In order to make a scanned document editable, you'll need to use the OCR function in your software (Optical Character Recognition). This is assuming your printer came with OCR software, if not, you'll need to purchase an OCR software package in order to convert images into editable documents. You should be able to find such packages for less than $50.00. Check your documentation (and help files) and look for OCR in the index or search the help files for OCR to see if such software came with your printer software package.

Document size can be set before you scan.
Your scanner software should give you options for type of document and resolution settings. If your documents are to large, set resolution lower.
Example, Black and white or greyscale scans are much smaller in size than color documents.
Saving files as jpg will compress the file for storage.
If you have an image editing program you can decrease the size of the file after the scan.

for ocr to edit
use software lise sprint 5.0 fine reader
it's very easy to operate.

and scan in JPG format for editing

When you scan it, the original manufacurer's software should allow you to save it as a Word document or some other editable format. PDF, JPG, TIF, and other image formats probably won't work.

When you save in Photoshop make sure you select "Baseline ("Standard") on the JPEG options when you save. That should fix the problem for you. It did the trick for My Kodak SV710 digital frame which wasn't displaying images I had edited in photoshop.

Maybe that JPG has very high quality, big size that Word cant handle it, it sometimes happens. Try to put it on some other text-editing software, I bet that WORD doesnt handle that big JPG. Happend for me also :) try to upload it to an image-hosting site, then just put the link in the DOC :)