page manager program ??

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Any good "page manager" programs out there, for dealing with scanned
multi-page document images?

Paperport 9 is a big disappointment; Acrobat may be pretty good but haven't
worked with it long enough. What seems to be working best for me right now
is Scandall 21 (scanner utility that came with Fujitsu scanner) together
with my file manger with image preview.

Just for example, I tried scanning a bunch of documents into one big
multipage TIFF file. I didn't bother to split up the TIFF into separate
files, thinking I would use Paperport for that. Big mistake! I had to
convert the TIFF file to a MAX file before I could "unstack" the pages ...
(so that I could restack pages in proper order). But it turned out to be a
big mess. One huge problem is that the image thumbnails are just too small
to identify page numbers, etc. What is needed is small thumbnails AND a
large page preview window ... the large window displaying the currently
selected page in the thumbnail view. PP9 doesn't work that way. Also, the
"Reorder Pages" window in Paperport is a big joke ... the thumbnail document
images are even tinier. You can reorder pages, all right, but you have
hardly any idea WHAT page you're dragging, or whether you're putting it in
the right place.

Acrobat MAY work all right ... need to work with it some more.

ScandAll does have a nice window with large thumbnails ... the big page
viewer window is automatically updated to display the document currently
selected in the thumbnail window. It's also easy to rearrange pages by
dragging and dropping thumbnails. But Scandall doesn't make it easy to
divide up (visually) a large batch of pages into separate documents by
dragging and dropping. But what the heck, this is a program that comes
bundled with the Fujitsu scanner, I'm surprised it does so much!

What I ended up doing ... I saved the scanned each page image to a SEPARATE
TIF file. Then I used my file manager (with a good image preview) to make
folders, and drag and drop page image files into the appropriate folder.

There's got to be a better way!
 
spoon2001 said:
Any good "page manager" programs out there, for dealing with scanned
multi-page document images?

Paperport 9 is a big disappointment; Acrobat may be pretty good but
haven't worked with it long enough. What seems to be working best for me
right now is Scandall 21 (scanner utility that came with Fujitsu scanner)
together with my file manger with image preview.
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There's got to be a better way!
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Scansoft has Paperport 10 now, Have you tried the new version?
 
CSM1 said:
Scansoft has Paperport 10 now, Have you tried the new version?
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Yeah, I know, but I haven't tried it. I didn't want to shell out the bucks
and be disappointed again. Unless they have made it far easier to see and
rearrange individual pages within a multipage document, it's just not worth
it to me. I might pick it up when they're about to release PP11... and it's
$0 after rebate at Fry's. I'll browse the Scansoft discussion forums...
(they're really poor!)

Here's the way I think it needs to be done. They need to make it so that
the file system sees a multipage document (TIF, PDF, whatever, as it would a
folder. Except that pages would be displayed in the order in which they
appear in the document. The thumbnail images would be displayed in a
thumbnail-view pane. In another pane, a page preview pane, would be
displayed a much larger image of the currently highlighted thumbnail. Then,
having verified what page you're looking at, and where it needs to go, you
drag and drop it to the appropriate location (i.e. between two other
thumbnail images. And of course, one should be able to drag and drop pages
from another folder or another document into the appropriate location in a
multipage document.

None of this stacking and unstacking business ... how do you know that
you're placing the page in the right place in the stack?

As far as I know, there is no competition to Paperport out there. :(
 
spoon2001 said:
Yeah, I know, but I haven't tried it. I didn't want to shell out the bucks
and be disappointed again. Unless they have made it far easier to see and
rearrange individual pages within a multipage document, it's just not worth
it to me. I might pick it up when they're about to release PP11... and it's
$0 after rebate at Fry's. I'll browse the Scansoft discussion forums...
(they're really poor!)

Here's the way I think it needs to be done. They need to make it so that
the file system sees a multipage document (TIF, PDF, whatever, as it would a
folder. Except that pages would be displayed in the order in which they
appear in the document. The thumbnail images would be displayed in a
thumbnail-view pane. In another pane, a page preview pane, would be
displayed a much larger image of the currently highlighted thumbnail. Then,
having verified what page you're looking at, and where it needs to go, you
drag and drop it to the appropriate location (i.e. between two other
thumbnail images. And of course, one should be able to drag and drop pages
from another folder or another document into the appropriate location in a
multipage document.

None of this stacking and unstacking business ... how do you know that
you're placing the page in the right place in the stack?

As far as I know, there is no competition to Paperport out there. :(
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For just viewing images including multipage Tiff, Irfanview (free for
personal use) will display all of the pages in a multipage image.
http://www.irfanview.com

Irfanview can even create multipage images.
It is not a page manager, it is just a viewer and simple editor.
 
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