How To Install MODI

MODI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging) was an application that was bundled with Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007. This application allowed you to scan, annotate, perform OCR and re-arrange pages inside of a viewer. Many people used MODI as an important part of their workflow with many other pieces of software (such as EMR document management, for example).

Once Office 2010 was released, Microsoft stopped bundling MODI, and required you to install it from Office 2003/2007 media. If you did not have licensing for these applications, you may not have had the capability of using or installing MODI for your business use.

Fortunately, Microsoft's free Sharepoint Designer 2007 includes MODI as part of its bundle.

Here are the instructions on how to deploy MODI automatically with a Microsoft Installer patch file (.msp) - which you can generate using the setup executable.

1.	Download SharePoint Designer 2007 Find SharePoint Designer 2007 at the following link (note that SharePoint Designer 2010 does NOT include MODI): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=BAA3AD86-BFC1-4BD4-9812-D9E710D44F42&displaylang=en
2.	Extract the files from the downloaded executable to a folder This download does have the ability for the admin to create a customization file in the Office customization tool (OCT) to install MODI. You will need to download the main .exe; SharePointDesigner.exe, then extract the files with the command line. For example: \\Servername\ShareName\SharePointDesigner2007_download\SharePointDesigner.exe /extract:\\servername\sharename\ This will extract the setup.exe, Admin folder, etc. to \\servername\sharename
3.	Open the Office Customization Tool From the extracted folder location, run the following command to create the customizations in the OCT: \\Servername\ShareName\SharePointDesigner2007\setup.exe /admin
4.	Select the custom options for SharePoint Designer (note that you won't actually install the Designer!) Within the OCT, you would go to Set feature installations state, and make everything "not available," except MODI, as in the screenshot here. Changing the OCT settings to hidden and locked, if you do not want users to utilize SharePoint Designer, will hide it from within the Add/Remove Programs.
5.	Save your patch file (.msp) to the 'Updates' folder Save the resultant .msp (file>save) file and save it in the ‘updates’ folder where you extracted the Sharepoint Designer resource files. When you double-click setup.exe the install will use this file to define its installation parameters (no need to call it from the command-line).
6.	Bonus: unregister name.dll to disable Designer interaction with IE After the installation of SharePoint Designer, if you are using SharePoint document libraries, it is recommended to unregister the Name.dll for SharePoint Designer (unless you have the actual Designer component installed). Unregistering the Name.dll for SharePoint Designer will address the interaction of Office files stored on a SharePoint document library and having two different versions of Office products (Office 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2007) on the computer.