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02/18/2011 12:48 AM

What software is good to edit the scanned files?
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02/18/2011 3:24 AM

Photo-Shop

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02/18/2011 8:34 AM

Once a file is scanned it becomes static. Some editing can be done with software like Adobe Acrobat but this is only markups and cut and paste changes after converting to PDF.

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02/18/2011 10:48 PM

Depends on what format you are saving to & what kind of editing you want to do?
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02/18/2011 11:01 PM

Are you talking about Optical Character Recognition Software, that assists you in converting scanned documents to text? If so, what operating system are you running? Most scanners I have purchased have come packaged with the manufacturer's version of commercial software, or there are Open Source solutions in the Linux world.
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02/19/2011 12:50 AM

Scanned files are saved in many formats like image [BMP, JPG, Tif etc. etc.], Doc, PDF, html ... .

What type you mean?

There are programs for each of format. Professionals are costly but may have more options while frees are abondonned on web.

For example for images Irfanview is a verstyle and can resize, color editing and changing format.

Give details to your q@?<?qroper reply without asking further questions.
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02/19/2011 7:51 PM

OCR.I am using ABYY FINE READER
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02/19/2011 10:17 PM

ABYY Fine Reader- that tells me you are either in the Windows world or the MAC world. Linux has some open source solutions that work quite well- I use OCRFeeder (A Gnome desktop project), which gives me a choice of several different OCR engines- I have had best results with Tesseract, but Orcad works reasonably well. There are others supported by the OCRFeeder as well. There is a Wiki with some basic information.
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02/20/2011 8:41 AM

seems like another topic for the blog

also depending on how rigid your definition of open source is

Picasa from google is a fine organizer & simple editor of images

Picasa will find images you have misplaced on your computer, depending on which folders you tell it to look in & what type files to look for. There is also a incremental back up program, which saves to either CD/DVD or other external media.

Picasa works on most every Operating System
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02/21/2011 4:05 PM

Here is a link to the HowTo I put together describing how to extract data from a graph and convert the data to a mathematical relationship.
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02/20/2011 3:21 AM

Snip works fine here.

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02/21/2011 2:51 PM

O.K. Where is MOTY?
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