PaperScan is a powerful universal scanning tool with an OCR engine to make document acquisition easy for anyone.

With it, you can control any scanner (TWAIN or WIA)

Import any image/PDF files in PaperScan and arrange them in any 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. It is a revolutionary breakthrough in captured document technology, allowing scanned images to be compressed up to 10x smaller than TIFF G4 and TIFF-based PDFs. It will enable documents of any type to be viewed and manipulated efficiently over the Internet and afford digital copiers/printers efficient network transmission of digitally copied documents.

PaperScan 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 area

Other 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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