PaperScan Free is a powerful universal scanning tool with an OCR engine for making document acquisition an easy task for anyone.

PaperScan Free is a powerful universal scanning tool with an OCR engine for making document acquisition an easy task for anyone. With it, you can control any scanner (TWAIN or WIA) Import any image/PDF files in PaperScan, arrange them in any imaginable single-page/multi-page configuration. Then you can perform a wide range of image adjustments/enhancements and save your work in various file formats including JPEG, TIFF, PDF and JBIG2 encoding is 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.PaperScan Free image correction/enhancement features include: Autodeskew (Deskew) is an artifact that can occur in scanned images because of the camera being misaligned, imperfections in the scanning or surface, or simply because the paper was not placed completely flat when scanned. (Deskew is the process of removing skew from images.) remove punch holes remove borders blank pages detection and removal angle rotation convert to black and white or greyscale or color adjust color (brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma) apply filters to smooth, stretch contrast or median the image apply bi-tonal filters to remove isolated dots or to dilate/erode characters apply contour, sepia or scan-line effects erase a specific areaOther PaperScan Free features include: image printing image quality selection area selection / crop selected area image resize information about image's resolution, size and color mode

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