Post by Sarah on Sept 11, 2014 10:02:09 GMT
Hi everyone!
Hope you are all well :)
I'm as happy as a lark, just doing my dog thing. Kept no pup of my own this year, but will be getting a rescue doggy in in a couple of days, so it is busy busy as usual ;)
Apart from keeping busy with the dogs also getting some paperwork organized and that's what I'd like to ask some advice about.
For some years I've been using ReadIris Pro 11.14, which came with my document scanner.
Works perfectly for text, but these days I often have to scan (and convert to readable textfiles) documents that contain text ánd images.
And now I find out that the scans get a bit compressed. An A4 size document ends up about 1,5 cm shorter than the original file.
That's no problem for the text, but with the images it is a disaster.
If I scan an image of a whippet it comes out looking like a pitbull!
At first I thought it was a problem with the scanner, but my other scanner (the one that is part of my printer and which I rarely use) does the same.
So I figure it is a software problem.
So I'm looking for (preferably free) software that I can use for scanning and OCR.
I know Irfanview does this too (has a plugin for it these days), but it is slow and cumbersome ánd if I forget I can't open an image at the same time the whole thing crashes.
Besides I like the fact that in ReadIris I can scan papers in a pdf format as a booklet and it is set to 300 DPI standard or can be set higher and still functions well.
Image software that can do scans is of no use to me - I have plenty of those already (Photofiltre and Paintshop Pro etc.). And they generally scan a document as a single file, you have to save it and then you can scan another.
If I have 20 pages I want them to end up in one PDF, not 20 seperate PDF files. :P
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!
Hope you are all well :)
I'm as happy as a lark, just doing my dog thing. Kept no pup of my own this year, but will be getting a rescue doggy in in a couple of days, so it is busy busy as usual ;)
Apart from keeping busy with the dogs also getting some paperwork organized and that's what I'd like to ask some advice about.
For some years I've been using ReadIris Pro 11.14, which came with my document scanner.
Works perfectly for text, but these days I often have to scan (and convert to readable textfiles) documents that contain text ánd images.
And now I find out that the scans get a bit compressed. An A4 size document ends up about 1,5 cm shorter than the original file.
That's no problem for the text, but with the images it is a disaster.
If I scan an image of a whippet it comes out looking like a pitbull!
At first I thought it was a problem with the scanner, but my other scanner (the one that is part of my printer and which I rarely use) does the same.
So I figure it is a software problem.
So I'm looking for (preferably free) software that I can use for scanning and OCR.
I know Irfanview does this too (has a plugin for it these days), but it is slow and cumbersome ánd if I forget I can't open an image at the same time the whole thing crashes.
Besides I like the fact that in ReadIris I can scan papers in a pdf format as a booklet and it is set to 300 DPI standard or can be set higher and still functions well.
Image software that can do scans is of no use to me - I have plenty of those already (Photofiltre and Paintshop Pro etc.). And they generally scan a document as a single file, you have to save it and then you can scan another.
If I have 20 pages I want them to end up in one PDF, not 20 seperate PDF files. :P
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!