PaperScan :: TWAIN & WIA Scanning Software with OCR and Annotations
Current version: 1.4.0.5 (31 January 2012)
PaperScan is a powerful TWAIN & WIA scanning software with an OCR engine centered on one idea : making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.
You have many different scanners or plan to buy new scanner ?
PaperScan is simply universal while most of the scanning applications are dedicated to one scanner or one protocol.
With PaperScan you can control any scanner
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TWAIN
TWAINTWAIN is an industry standard API for image acquisition, strongly oriented toward scanners.The TWAIN standard is maintained by the TWAIN Working Group.
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WIA
WIAThe WIA (Microsoft Windows Image Acquisition) API is standardized for acquiring digital images from devices that are primarily used to capture still images and for managing these devices.WIA is a COM interface, very different from but overlapping with TWAIN. Compared to TWAIN it offers much better support for digital cameras, and much less sophisticated support for scanners.
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including network scanners, cameras or acquisition cards via one simple click : all capabilities are automatically handled and negotiated by PaperScan.
You prefer to use the scanner's software for document acquisition?
Import any image/PDF files in PaperScan, arrange them in any imaginable single-page/multi-page configuration, perform a wide range of image adjustments/enhacements, annotate your documents with sticky notes, rubber stamps, highlighter or arrows and save your work in various file formats including JPEG, TIFF, PDF and
JBIG2
JBIG2JBIG2 encoding is a a revolutionary breakthrough in captured document technology allowing scanned images to be compressed up to 10x smaller than with TIFF G4 and TIFF-based PDFs. It allows documents of any types to be viewed and manipulated efficiently over the Internet, and affords digital copiers/printers efficient network transmission of digitally copied documents.
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PaperScan Features
Image correction/enhancement features include :
Annotations:
- Arrows.
- Highlighter.
- Sticky note.
- Rubber stamp.
Other features include:
- Image printing.
- Duplex scanning.
- Image quality selection.
- Area selection / crop selected area.
- Image resize.
- Information about image's resolution, size and colour mode.
- Pdf encryption. Paperscan can read encrypted PDF and create PDF with encryption.
- Magnifier tool.
Screenshots Examples
Click on thumbs to view how these effects works
Document with/without PaperScan annotations
Document with/without PaperScan magnifier
Document with/without PaperScan autodeskew
Document with/without PaperScan remove punch-holes
Document with/without PaperScan median effect
Save your work as single/multipage files in various file formats :
PDF/A, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, JBIG2
JBIG2JBIG2 encoding is a a revolutionary breakthrough in captured document technology allowing scanned images to be compressed up to 10x smaller than with TIFF G4 and TIFF-based PDFs. It allows documents of any types to be viewed and manipulated efficiently over the Internet, and affords digital copiers/printers efficient network transmission of digitally copied documents. .,
PDF/OCR
PDF/OCRPDF Searchable Image (often called PDF/OCR) is a PDF image-based document which, in addition to the visual representation of the original document (bitmapped layer), also contains a (hidden) text layer resulted from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process so you can search for any word on any page of the PDF document.
PaperScan uses Tesseract OCR engine to create PDF/OCR files. Text can be viewed in PDF Viewer apps, such as Adobe Reader, PaperLight, etc..
with post-naming options.
You can use PaperScan for any Windows operating system starting with Windows 2000.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit drivers are supported.
For later versions of Windows you don't need administrator privileges to run PaperScan.
PaperScan is available in 3 versions: Free Edition, Home Edition and Professsional Edition.
All three versions provide the same set of features but the Free and Home Editions have some limitations.
Technical support is free for evaluation phase and for license owners.
License and Pricing
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Free Edition |
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49 USD |
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Batch TWAIN & WIA scanning/import limitation |
10 pages |
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Save as single page PDF/A, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, JBIG2 |
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Save as multipage TIFF, JBIG2 and PDF/A |
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Image processing during batch acquisition:
Auto-Deskew, Rotation, borders removal, Holes punch removal, negative. |
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Automatic blank page removal |
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Post Image Processing: color adjustment, color space convertion, effects, filters, crop and more...
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Annotation support: highlighter, sticky-note, stamp, arrows |
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PDF Encryption support (read & write) |
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Flatbed & document feeder support |
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Duplex scanning support |
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Technical support |
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*PaperScan Home Edition is free for students. You can contact us here to get your free copy today! |