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PaperScan is a powerful scanning software centered on one idea : making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.

You have many different scanners or plan to buy new scanner ?
PaperScan is simply universal while most of the scanning applications are dedicated to one scanner or one protocol.
With PaperScan you can control any scanner (TWAINTWAIN is an industry standard API for image acquisition, strongly oriented toward scanners.The TWAIN standard is maintained by the TWAIN Working Group. More on TWAIN or WIAThe WIA (Microsoft Windows Image Acquisition) API is standardized for acquiring digital images from devices that are primarily used to capture still images and for managing these devices.WIA is a COM interface, very different from but overlapping with TWAIN. Compared to TWAIN it offers much better support for digital cameras, and much less sophisticated support for scanners. More on WIA) including network scanners, cameras or acquisition cards via one simple click : all capabilities are automatically handled and negotiated by PaperScan.

You prefer to use the scanner s software for document acquisition?
Import any image/PDF files in PaperScan, arrange them in any imaginable single-page/multi-page configuration, then perform a wide range of image adjustments/enhacements and save your work in various file formats including JPEG, TIFF, PDF and JBIG2JBIG2 encoding is a a revolutionary breakthrough in captured document technology allowing scanned images to be compressed up to 10x smaller than with TIFF G4 and TIFF-based PDFs. It allows documents of any types to be viewed and manipulated efficiently over the Internet, and affords digital copiers/printers efficient network transmission of digitally copied documents. More on JBIG2.

Image correction/enhancement features include:

• autodeskewSkew is an artifact that can occur in scanned images because of the camera being misaligned, imperfections in the scanning or surface, or simply because the paper was not placed completely flat when scanned. Deskew is the process of removing skew from images.
• remove punch holesYou can remove the black dots (punch holes) from scanned document images after scanning punched documents. PaperScan allows configurable punch holes removal .
• remove borders
• blank pages detection and removal
• angle rotationPaperScan allows image rotation at any angle besides the classic 90, 180 and 270 degrees rotation features.
• convert to black and white or greyscale or colour
• adjust colour (brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma)
• apply filters to smooth, stretch contrast or median the image
• apply bitonal filters to remove isolated dots or to dilate/erode characters
• apply contour, sepia or scanline effects

Other features include:

• image printing
• image quality selection
• area selection / crop selected area
• image resize
• information about image s resolution, size and colour mode

Save your work as single/multipage files in various file formats:
PDF/A, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, JBIG2., PDF/OCR with post-naming options.