Gene. >Sent: Monday, 8 January 2001 2:52 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [LegacyUG] Direct Scanning >All you people out there that use this Great Genealogy software! >I have this question? Any of you found software that will scan in a Image >directly to a CD? I would like to scan a lot of things directly to CD�s >rather than go through all the software that I now use!! I don't know what you mean by "all the software that I use now" but every scanner must use some software program to scan, manipulate the image in some degree and than write the scanned image to disk somewhere. There are two issues here: Issue one: If you have a CD-RW drive, you must have in it "rewritable" CD-Rom media. The CD-RW media is essentially like a hard drive partition or a hard drive without separate partitions. In any case it will be assigned a drive letter beyond C:, some drive letter like D:, E:, or F:, etc. Since it will have a drive letter you can direct the scanning software to write the image there directly. You can even specify a folder on the CD-WR media that you have created and put the image in it. Issue two: Your CD-RW drive can also create Write Once-Read Many Times CD's for which you must use another software program. The media is simply called CD-R. If your CD-Rom drive lets you write in "multi sessions"(some may use different but similar terminology) then you can add more images to the CD-R media at a later time(session). For this to work the images must be somewhere on the hard drive and you selectively write any number of images in one and/or successive sessions, until you run out of room on the media, of course. Optionally you can use image enhancing software with the knowledge that once on the CD-R media, the images cannot be altered. You can however copy an image from a CD-R media to the hard drive, manipulate it, and write it back to the CD-R media. WARNING: I don't suggest overwriting the old file but writing it into another folder will work. I have accidentally done that one time and the whole CD-R media was unusable. Hope this helps. Herb. Albuquerque, New Mexico [EMAIL PROTECTED] (plain e-mail only) Please visit my "Genealogy" web page at: http://www.crosswinds.net/~herbpalm ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
