I got a ticket from my user said that she cannot open a file in .mdi format. I never see this kind of file format before. So, i just google it and i got the answer. An MDI file, which stands for Microsoft Document Imaging, is a file format of Microsoft for storing raster images of scanned documents together with optional annotations or metadata, and can only can only be opened or edited in Office Document Imaging.

In Microsoft Office 2003, you can open .mdi file by default. However, you cannot open .mdi file in .  The reason this happen is because by default Office 2007 does not install Microsoft Document ImaginMicrosoft Office 2007g. So if you want to open the MDI file in Office 2007, you have to install the feature manually.

To install MDI, just follow below steps:- (more…)