Scanning (was Re: recent acquisitions for the House of VAX

For me, it's usually Kofax Imagecontrols for capture, destripe, deskew, and char rebuild. (I happen to have a nice Fujitsu high- speed document scanner with Kofax accelerator). I have used Photoshop and a series of filters to do the same thing, albeit slower. Gimp works just as well as PS. Photoshop on Macs, Kofax on NT, and Gimp on *nix. To convert to PDF, I normally use ABBYY FineReader 5.0, a very nice bit of OCR software. It preserves layout well, does near-font conversion of readables, and includes images of whatever is questionable. I have also used tif2ps and ps2pdf on *nix, operating on the source tiff. This is usually best if I want near-perfect PDFs I'll be honest; I don't have that much demand for PDF. Most of my work product is either plain ASCII text or multipage TIFF. I'll do an odd PDF once every few months for Marketing, that's it. Other people could comment much better on PDF conversion. Jim On Tuesday, September 11, 2001 1:21 AM, Bruce Ray [SMTP:bkr@WildHareComputers.com] wrote: