Re: [libreoffice-users] Save and Edit Text document

On 10/29/23 18:41, Kenneth Groninga wrote:
> There are 2 instances.  I have an old written document that I want to 
> edit.. So I scan it and file it in My Documents . Then I open it in 
> Libre Office Writer to edit it and I can not edit the document.

That is normal.  If scanning turns the documents into
an image file, it cannot be edited by Writer or Draw.
I mean you can make marks on the document, but you
cannot change the text.

> Also I type a document in Libre Office Writer and save it in My 
> Documents.  Later I want to edit it so I open it in Libre Office 
> Writer and again I can not edit it.  Why can I not edit these documents?


That is not normal.  You should be able to edit it.

So when you type something to edit it, does anything
happen?  Can you get a blinking cursor?


> Kenneth Groninga
>
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 3:58 PM Mike Flannigan <mflan@mflan.com> wrote:
>
>
>     What you are doing is not normal.  Why scan it?  Why not
>     just open the text file in anything and edit it?
>
>     If you want to go back and forth between text and image file,
>     you can.  On Linux I use tesseract to do ocr.
>
>
>     Mike
>
>
>     On 10/26/23 10:05, users+help@global.libreoffice.org wrote:
>
> >     How do I scan a text document and save it and then later open it and edit
> >     it?
> >
> >     Kenneth Groninga


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