Greetings, --Health warning - Longish E-mail, may cause drowsiness-- I recently was without my SuSE system for a short time and with the help of the list, got it up and running very quickly.
I missed it because I try to do all Internet and e-mailing via Linux wherever possible as I've been caught out by Windows vulnerability in the past. The last remaining program on Windows, which would prevent me from being on Linux 100% is an application called Paperport by Scansoft. This is a simple program, acting as a repository for all types of scanned and downloaded images, which can be imported, exported, and stored in a number of formats and has a link bar to other applications such as Paint, Photoshop, Word, etc, for further manipulation/inclusion into documents and so on. They describe it as a "document management system". It has basic manipulation tools such as cutting, cropping, straightening pages, rotating and a compression utility. It can stack batches of related documents together and also has a built in (or add on) OCR program which is quite effective, where you export a scanned document to a word processor via OCR for editing, plus a e-mail/fax link. If anyone is familiar with this application and can suggest a Linux alternative, I should be very interested to hear of it as I probably use this more than any other piece of software, and have about 15GB worth of files stored within it. Scansoft produce a Mac version of Paperport but not a Linux one, apparently. Cheers - Woodsey
