When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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A cool feature of GIMP is its ability to connect to a scanner. If the scanner has TWIN compliant driver, then it can be connected to GIMP. TWAIN is an application program interface and communication ...

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I'm helping my dad find a program that can scan the pages of photo albums (on the scanner flatbed), and automatically crop and extract the multiple images per page into individual image files. For ...

I'm about to scan lots of documents into my computer. On Mac I use Image Capture which is excellent and has a lot of great features. On Windows however the scanning software that comes with the OS is ...