[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > >
Have a look at Showimg. http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/ Col.
