Some document scanners have a special mode for scanning transparencies. This includes medical imagery like xrays, your old collection of 35mm slides and the negatives / filmstrips that used to come with printed photos. Continue reading Scanning Transparencies
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CmdTwain 2.02
CmdTwain 2.02 has just been released. It is a minor tweak to 2.01 in that /SOURCE no longer accesses the default scanner (so if you don’t have one you should be able to see that and install or select one). You don’t get a “check cables …” message when simply choosing a scanner.
It also includes an optional GUI (graphical user interface). I suspect most of you get CmdTwain because you can just click on something and have it scan, or run a program from within your program to get a scan. That hasn’t changed. That’s all still there and it works exactly the same way as it always has. However, some people have been asking for a GUI so I’ve added an extra program that pops up a user interface, allows people to choose things, and provides a scan button. When they click that, it runs the normal CmdTwain program.
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CmdTwain 2.01
Okay. CmdTwain version 2 is now done and available. Just download it through the normal link on the product page.
What’s changed?
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How to Install a Software Certificate for GssEziSoft
If you pay for expensive software from organisations like Microsoft, it will come with a digital signature which tells you it is really from that organisation. It doesn’t guarantee that it will be bug free or do everything you hope, but they are putting their reputation on the line so it should have had some testing and it should do what they claim. Continue reading How to Install a Software Certificate for GssEziSoft
The Best of the Command Line and a GUI
We are all very used to using a graphical user interface (GUI) theses days. Continue reading The Best of the Command Line and a GUI
Cut a picture into two
A while ago, I was doing a project where I needed to cut an image into small pieces so a user could click on different parts to trigger different actions. It was a fun little project but Continue reading Cut a picture into two
Fix Scans and Pictures
Sometimes scanners just make our lives difficult. They have silly defaults and, sometimes, no way to change them. I’ve heard of one scanner that always scans the same size regardless of what you tell it. Its view is, “you can fix that in software.”
I’ve heard of another where it always scans upside down. Probably there is a feeder or it’s installed somewhere where you can’t insert the paper any other way.
So, for the times where it really shouldn’t be this difficult, I’ve added a program to the GssEziSoft collection called FixPic. It will turn pictures around or flip them over if you need it to.
You could also use it to update a batch of pictures (if you have a stack of old sideways scans, or something like that).
CmdTwain 1.06
People must like the width and height option (/WH w.w h.h) because some of you are using it.
That’s how I found out it was only doing squares.
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CmdTwain 1.05 Released
CmdTwain 1.05 is for those of you using the scanner button.
Setting the DPI Resolution of a Bitmap file
Setting the DPI resolution of a bitmap file isn’t hard. Many programs already do it. It is frustrating that some don’t.
Here’s a way to fix that.
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