Mid-Peninsula IBM PC Club MeetingNovember 21, 2005

SnagIt Screen CaptureOmniPage Pro 14 OCR

IconSaver Utility

Jan Laskowski jan@janjl.com

SnagIt Screen Capture

Windows image, text, & video capture program with many options

Create separate capture profiles… individual Hotkeys for each capture profile

Mature - First released in 1990 for Win 3.1 $40 direct from TechSmith/SnagIt, version 7 $20 major upgrades, v6 -> v7 30 day trial available Free technical support

SnagIt Screen Capture

Output - Send capturesSend to Printer Save to Clipboard Save to File - over 23 formats, including: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIF, EPS Send to E-mail Send to SnagIt Catalog FTP to Web Edit with SnagIt Studio Send within Instant Messenger Send to an External Program

EditingRaster based editor – SnagIt EditorVector based editor – SnagIt Studio

Highlights Frames, Borders, Drop shadows Edge effects (torn, faded, wave etc..) Text boxes Annotations Stamps, Arrows Sticky notes Color adjustmentEliminating unwanted areas of screen

Image Capture Entire Screen Window or Active Window Region or Fixed Region Object Menu Scrolling Window Scrolling Region Scrolling Active Window Freehand Region Ellipse, Rounded Rectangle Triangle, Polygon Clipboard Graphic File Program File Full Screen DOS Direct X Extended Window Wallpaper Scanners Cameras

Text Capture Entire Screen Window or Active Window Region or Fixed Region Object Scrolling Window Scrolling Region Scrolling Active Window Clipboard Full-Screen DOS

Video Capture Entire Screen Window or Active Window Region or Fixed Region

Web Capture All files from a Web page/site Files off Web pages linked to original page

SnagIt Screen Capture

http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp

OmniPage Pro 14 OCR

World's best selling Optical Character Recognition Software

Convert paper and PDF files into your PC applications efficiently

30 different editable electronic file formats, including Microsoft® Word, Excel, XML, PDF & PowerPoint® – complete with text, tables and graphics

Powerful OCR technology, advanced layout analysis and intuitive editing tools

OmniPage Pro 14 OCR

Demo :1. Two column, all text

2. Two column, all text; extreme slanted

3. Mixed Text/Graphics page

4. Table into Spreadsheet

Use JPGs, can go direct from scanner1. Lowest quality JPGs OK

Direct OCR from EXCEL & MS WORD

OmniPage Pro 14 OCR

Scanned document

OmniPage Pro 14 OCR

Extreme skew

scanned document

OmniPage Pro 14 OCR

Scanned table from magazine

OmniPage Pro 14 OCRRecipe off the Internet

OmniPage Pro 14 OCR

Digital Photo

OmniPage Pro 14 OCR

http://www.nuance.com/omnipage/

OmniPage Pro 14 OCRPricing … $$

IconSaver Utility

IconSaver is a small shareware utility that saves & restores icons on the Desktop

Homepage: http://www.iconsaver.com Mario Knok : E-mail: mario.knok@kc.htnet.hr

Evaluation period of 30 daysRegistration fee $5. When you register IconSaver,

you are entitled to all future upgrades free of charge

IconSaver Utility

Supports Hotkeys - Save Icons, Restore Icons, Show/Hide Tray Icon

Can automatically restore icons on startupAllows Password protectionWhen you change the desktop resolution,

icons are automatically restored to saved positions for that resolution.

IconSaver Editor can be used to manipulate IconSaver's data in the registry

IconSaver Utility

http://www.iconsaver.com/index.html