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

"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