Roger Donne wrote: > "Ian Goddard" <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:0K2dnaXEFNZRi4baRVnygAA@pipex.net... >> Roger Donne wrote: >>> Any recommendations or comments on software packages for scanning paper >>> documents and managing the resulting files? I'm looking for something >>> which will scan to a format like pdf. Subsequently I would like to >>> combine the files with other digital image files in a variety of formats >>> and organise the lot into a database which would be easy to search or >>> retrieve from. I do have genealogical software which allows images to be >>> associated with people and events in the database, but I was looking for >>> something separate to this. >>> Regards: Roger Donne >> Try this thread from July: >> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/soc.genealogy.computing/browse_thread/thread/b63e46b273f4239d/9d664cf42a675fa3?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#9d664cf42a675fa3 >> >> -- >> Ian >> >> Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard >> at nildram co uk > > Thank you. xnview referred to in the above thread looks very comprehensive. > I was rather hoping I could combine this or something similar with some > image management/ database software searchable on keywords or document > description. > Roger Donne > > The free Irfanview allows saving as multipage TIF files in the Acquire/Batch scanning option. Picasa allows you add and search keywords/filenames/etc.

> -----Original Message----- > From: gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of john > Sent: 21 October 2007 12:18 > To: gencmp@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Document Scanning and Archiving Software > > Roger Donne wrote: > > "Ian Goddard" <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > > news:0K2dnaXEFNZRi4baRVnygAA@pipex.net... > >> Roger Donne wrote: > >>> Any recommendations or comments on software packages for scanning > >>> paper documents and managing the resulting files? I'm > looking for > >>> something which will scan to a format like pdf. Subsequently I > >>> would like to combine the files with other digital image > files in a > >>> variety of formats and organise the lot into a database > which would > >>> be easy to search or retrieve from. I do have > genealogical software > >>> which allows images to be associated with people and > events in the > >>> database, but I was looking for something separate to this. > >>> Regards: Roger Donne The full version of Adobe Acrobat can organize as well as create PDFs but it may be more than you want to pay ! Any there is more info at www.adobe.com/acrobat You may want to have a look at http://www.nuance.com/paperport/ Scanners often come with bundled software but I'm not sure if you have one or not