Our friend Carol has an old printer-scanner combo with the worst scanning software we’ve ever seen. It was enough to tick off the Good Humor man…. Read more
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Adobe Reader is the free program most people use to open “PDFs,” which are documents that retain their original look (all the formatting and… Read more
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You can tell from the number that PaperPort 12 for Windows has been around for a while. We first reviewed it more than a decade ago. What it does is… Read more
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If you ever scan a book or magazine page, you’ll find that the result is a picture of the page, not words you can edit. To make that picture a set of… Read more
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Digital cameras are great for instant note taking. You can take pictures of book pages, engineering drawings, a whiteboard or any object…. Read more
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We tested the two leading OCR programs against each other and as these things often turn out, each is better at some things than the other. OCR… Read more
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Two new $99 programs from Nuance and ABBYY take dead aim at Adobe’s $499 Acrobat Professional and offer to do nearly the same thing for much less…. Read more
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