If i have a document on the computer and i cut and paste a portion of it into inkscape directly can inkscape work with it or does it have to be scanned and put into a separate document and then uploaded ?

Hello,

could you be a bit more specific?
You have a document which is not yet scanned -is that meaning you have only a paper print of it, and have no digital document?

Or maybe only the words are mixed up.

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are you asking if you need to open a raster image in inkscape, save it as an svg, only to make it possible for you to import it to another svg document?
You can paste in raster images from your clipboard, or drag and drop too in some systems.
Also you can import raster images too.

Oh cut a portion, I skipped over that.
You can do that too, it will result in an embedded raster image in your svg, if you paste a cutted part of a raster image from clipboard.
Inkscape can work with that.

Lazur URH wrote:Hello,

could you be a bit more specific?
You have a document which is not yet scanned -is that meaning you have only a paper print of it, and have no digital document?

Or maybe only the words are mixed up.

Like
are you asking if you need to open a raster image in inkscape, save it as an svg, only to make it possible for you to import it to another svg document?
You can paste in raster images from your clipboard, or drag and drop too in some systems.
Also you can import raster images too.

Oh cut a portion, I skipped over that.
You can do that too, it will result in an embedded raster image in your svg, if you paste a cutted part of a raster image from clipboard.
Inkscape can work with that.

thank you you have answered my ? The raster image is saved ,i pulled just a portion of it to work with. Then opened inkscape and dropped it into the blank space on inkscape ,and saved it . I intend now to convert it to a vector file and clean it up for exporting it to a tool path and "g" code file program . Hope this clears up my intentions .