Hello Group, Well, after 15 months and 1 week, my husband is going to return home (tomorrow) from a '12 month' overseas tour of duty with the military. His...
Dawn, I am so excited for you - having your husband back has got to be the best belated Christmas gift ever. Please have a safe trip to your new home and make...
It was nice to hear about your trip. You have an obnoxious parrot??? I love parrots and have a goffin's cockatoo. Parrots are so much fun and such a pain at...
We're starting to seriously research/plan the project of digitally capturing, storing, indexing and possibly restoring family pictures. I'm not sure how many,...
My background is computers/Internet, so my expectations are probably a little bit on the high side. My first thought for viewing/ distributing the image...
Keith, If the goal is picture identification, consider the needs of the potential family story tellers ahead of your own. Let them start with organized ...
Happy New Year! I've been a lurker here for years and my sister and I are considering the purchase of a scanner which can scan slides. Our dad took tons...
LisaHBskt@...
Jan 9, 2005 7:03 pm
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Keith, I know that here are some very knowledgeable people on here and they should be able to point you in the right direction. I received an Epson Perfection...
Keith, I have an Epson Perfection 4870 Photo Pro, which does a very nice job on slides, as well as negatives of various sizes and regular photo scans too....
If there are a lot of slides to be scanned, it is worth purchasing a scanner with an adaptor to hold multiple slides at the same time. Our choice was a Minolta...
There is no consensus as to what is a great scanner, it depends on what level of quality you need and what abilities you have. I agree with the post about the...
I just wanted to mention that you can get good results off cheap scanners if you replace the software. Most scanner drivers are where the poor results ...
Hi Thomas, I was intrigued by your posting here about using a digital camera instead of scanning. I have access to some amazing high-end cameras here at the...
Use a camera, go to wal-mart and but for 88 cents a lettuce crisper, cut a hole in the bottom the size of your camera lens and make a cloud dome. Go to cloud...
wilburd@...
Jan 14, 2005 5:01 am
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... scanners if ... results ... light, and ... is "48 ... most ... What software to you then use to run the scanner if you disable the native stuff? How do you...
Hi - I am one of those sit back + read folks - but re the scanner talk -
could anyone recommend a scanner which can scan glass negatives that are up
to 3...
G'day Susan ... You need the full Acrobat program for best control. For example you can open a range of files singly or in groups into Acrobat and then save as...
Merv Leeding
mleeding@...
Jan 15, 2005 8:20 am
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Can someone please tell me how to convert PDF to some other form of text. Thanks, Ruth ... From: "Merv Leeding" <mleeding@...> To:...
Scansofts PaperPort is a great software at a reasonable price. I use it to scan and store all my genealogy documents and pictures. Larry [Non-text portions of...
LRiffey007@...
Jan 15, 2005 11:47 pm
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Hi Mike ... Sure but Scansoft does not have the range of features of Acrobat, nor I suspect does Scansoft have the facility of substituting the scanned bitmap ...
Merv Leeding
mleeding@...
Jan 17, 2005 12:36 am
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I've been reading the PDF answers with interest. Someone recently sent me scanned files in PDF format that downloaded in 7 minutes. I could view the page but...
... I use a copy stand. Lights are a pair of strobes mounted on the ceiling. I use polarizing filters on the lights and camera lens. It is a professional ...
Greetings: Does any one know of software I can use to create web pages without having to learn HTML? Bye, Harry [Non-text portions of this message have been...
HDMShort@...
Jan 20, 2005 7:05 am
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HTML is really easy, I learned half of it in five minutes, ebay put up a tutorial so sellers can do basic page management, check this tutorial out: ...
Hi folk After writing the previous message on this topic I opened Adobe Reader 7 to see if there were changes to the Bookshelf function. There was a moment of...