Scanning documents then cut and paste text

XP Home SP3 with HP deskjet All in one.
What l want to do is to scan "foreign" documents, and then cut and paste the text into something like google translate. No problems in scanning the document but then l get stuck as to what to do next.
Have been messing around with PSP but blowed if l can get it to cut and paste. Maybe it's the wrong program to use.
Are there any smaller (free?) programs out there that will do this, or am l going about it in the wrong way?
Regards

Sorry, have just worked out where l was going wrong.
The HP was scanning ok, but the only output formats available were tif, bmp, pdf, and some other weird sounding name. After checking the HP help screen, l didn't have any OCR software installed so loaded this from the disk and it now scans directly into wordpad where l can then use cut and paste.
Sorry, should have made an effort to do this in the first place, but at least it may help others.
Regards

deleted because you posted a resolution while I was composing my reply.

Edited by Queen-Evie, 24 September 2010 - 09:02 AM.