User manual NUANCE PAPERPORT 9 GETTING STARTED GUIDE

[. . . ] C OPYRIGHTS Copyright © 1999­2003 by ScanSoft®, Inc. No part of this publication may be transmitted, transcribed, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without prior written consent from ScanSoft, Inc. , 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960. Printed in the United States of America and the Netherlands. The software described in this book is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. [. . . ] You can add folders already on your computer to the Folders pane, including network folders and folders on external devices attached to your computer. Documents within these folders are then available for use within PaperPort. Refer to the PaperPort Help for more information about adding and using PaperPort folders. Import files You can use the Import file feature to bring an image file, such as those in the PDF, BMP, JPEG, and TIFF format, created in another program to the PaperPort desktop. The image file you import becomes a PaperPort Image item on the PaperPort desktop. In addition to using the Import command, you can also copy and paste or drag and drop documents and images directly onto the PaperPort desktop. When you are finished, you can easily convert the files to a different format if desired. Download pictures from your camera To get digital photos on the PaperPort desktop, you can download your photos from a TWAIN- or WIA-compatible camera. If your camera does not use a TWAIN or WIA device driver, use the photo download program that came with your camera to get your photos into your computer and drag and drop the photos to PaperPort. Refer to the PaperPort Help for more information. 18 Acquiring Items Touching Up Images When you display an image item in the Page View window, PaperPort provides several tools you can use to adjust or improve your image. For example, you can straighten a scanned page, lighten an underexposed photograph that is too dark, adjust the color in a color picture, remove "dirt spots" from a document page, or sharpen fuzzy pictures. In addition, you can rotate an item, remove stray dots, enhance lines, remove red eye, and crop part of an image. Image editing tools Select image Use the Selection tool to select part of an image you want to cut, copy, or delete using the commands on the Edit menu. Use it also to select part of an image before cropping or using the Remove Red Eye tool. Click the Rotate tool to rotate the selected item 90 degrees to the right. Sometimes a document is crooked when scanned. When this occurs, you can use the Straighten and Auto Straighten tools to adjust it. Rotate an image Straighten an image Enhance an image The Auto Enhance feature adjusts the brightness and contrast, color, and tint of an image. PaperPort analyzes the image and tries to correct whatever is wrong with the image. You can manually adjust your image using the Enhance tool. Select the Sharpen tool to adjust the sharpness of a blurry picture or, blur a sharp image for special effect. Sharpen an Image PaperPort Getting Started Guide 19 Remove red eye The Remove Red Eye tool helps you to remove the red-eye effect that occurs when photographing people or animals in low light or with a flash. Remove part of an image When you want to save or work with only part of a page or image, you can crop the image or you can erase the part that you do not want to use. Use the Selection tool to define the part you want to keep and then use the Crop tool to remove the remainder. Select the Erase tool to erase the area of the image that you draw over with the pointer. Remove stray dots Scanned images sometimes include stray dots or "speckles" The Remove Stray Dots tool automatically finds and removes such "dirt" from a page. The Improve Lines tool darkens lines and connects broken lines in a table or form to appear darker and straighter. Improve lines Edit multiple images The ability to process items as a group is often referred to as batch processing. PaperPort provides batch processing features so that you can quickly enhance, modify, or rotate multiple image items in a single operation. Select one or more image items on the desktop, and then, on the Item menu, point to Edit Pages, and select the desired command. See the online Help for more information. 20 Touching Up Images Annotating Pages PaperPort includes a collection of annotation tools that allow you to mark up scanned documents with information you would like to keep with that document. On PDF and PaperPort Image (. max) files, annotations are editable, meaning that you can reposition, change, or remove them--or edit textual content-- whenever you want. [. . . ] For more on sending items as e-mail attachments, see the PaperPort Help. Converting Items Using PaperPort, you can convert scanned documents and text items to image formats, and convert images back to text. Convert items to image formats You can convert scanned documents and text items to image formats. The Save As command allows you to save image items to any of a variety of standard image formats including, PDF, JPEG, and TIFF, as well as the native PaperPort Image format (. max). You can convert text items and image items to PaperPort Image items (. max) using the Duplicate as PaperPort Image command. The Duplicate as PDF Item command allows you to convert text items to PDF Image items. [. . . ]