Fixing Scans

If you ever use a scanner to import pages of text into your PC, you've probably encountered situations where everything present, but it needs some tweaking. If you've previously used a standard painting program to tidy up your scans, prepare to be amazed by how easily and quickly you can get the job done with a free Windows program called Scan Tailor. Once you've installed the software, open a new project and point it at a folder containing one or more scanned images. You can then perform the above-mentioned operations quickly and, in most cases, automatically. When you're happy with the results, save them on your hard disk and the job is done. You can get Scan Tailor from http://scantailor.sourceforge.net. It's a 5 MB download. runs on all recent versions of Windows, is free of malware according to VirusTotal, and is completely free.