I just got a laser printer at the boxing day sales!
It's a Samsung: a company which until now I've never really cared for since I can't crack my cellular.With it came a piece of software called SmarThru 4. And with that piece of software came a feature. A feature for which I am now a fan of the Samsung brand.
It's a bit of scanning software that recognizes characters, so I can copy text straight from my scans. I had a piece of software like this when I lived in residence, but SmarThru 4 features a few points that my old one didn't:
- Recognizes and keeps formatting.
- Recognizes images, and keeps those images in the document.
- Recognizes columns and groups paragraphs neatly (although each line ends in a paragraph break, that's still pretty damn good).
- Saving in a variety of formats, including rich text (with or without paragraph breaks), MS Word (with or without images), and Adobe PDF (with or without images).
- In the setup for the OCR feature (optical character recognition), it asks to select your language. Maybe this is for a more accurate character database (so people in America don't get Russian characters), or maybe it runs what it scans through a spellcheck to assure the most accurate text possible. I don't know.
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D. Phillips
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