Microsoft KB Archive/290461

= DocIm2002: Search Detects Words That You Are Not Looking for =

Article ID: 290461

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office XP Document Imaging
 * Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003

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This article was previously published under Q290461



SYMPTOMS
When you search for a group of words in a scanned document, not only are those words highlighted, but other words are highlighted as well. These extra words contain sequences of letters that match the words you searched for.



CAUSE
This behavior can occur because the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) search engine searches for character sequence matches and not for exact words when it searches a document.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, follow these steps:
 * 1) On the Edit menu, click Find.
 * 2) Type only one word in the Find box.



MORE INFORMATION
When you search for more than one word in a scanned document, letter sequences that combine to form those words are detected and highlighted. For example, if you search for the words &quot;on the&quot; in a document, the following words could also be detected:

on they

on themselves

conviction they

Additional query words: off2001kb prb

Keywords: kbnofix kbprb KB290461

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