CHAPTER 13 Scanning Text Documents Using OCR Software . . . . . . . . 229 What OCR Software Does . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 A Look at the Leading OCR Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 How OCR Software Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Recognize the Limitations of OCR Software . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Prepare Your Original Document for OCR Software to Read . . . 233 Tips for More Accurate OCR Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 The Future of OCR Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 PART IV Additional Scanning Projects CHAPTER 14 Basic Scanning Projects for Home Hobbyists . . . . . . . . . 237 Understand the Role of Your Image-Editing Software . . . . . . . 238 Image-Editing Software Used for Examples in this Book . . 239 The Universal First Step: Importing the Image . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Create Your Digital Photo Album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 What Is a Digital Album? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Find out How Your Particular Editing Program Creates Digital Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 A Look at How Some Popular Programs Create Digital Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 What Can You Do with Your Digital Albums? . . . . . . . . 245 Creating a Slide Show from Scanned Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Adding Props, Shadows, and Faux Backgrounds to Your Photos . 248 How to Add Props to a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Add a Faux Background to Your Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Add a Drop Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Personalizing Your Computer Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Moving on to More Advanced Image-Editing Projects . . . . . . . 258 CHAPTER 15 Making Works of Art and Fun from Scanned Photos . . . . . 259 Creating Useful Objects from Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 How Templates Make Finished Projects Easier . . . . . . . 261 Don’t Be Afraid to Modify a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Projects You Can Create with Templates . . . . . . . . . . . 262 How to Locate and Use Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Creating Your Own Project Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Add Frames and Borders to Scanned Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Using PhotoSuite to Create Frames and Borders . . . . . . . 264 Frames and Borders Using Other Image-Editing Programs . . 268 Creating Your Own Frame or Border Effect Without a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 x Contents Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adding Text, Captions, and Word Balloons to Scanned Photos . . 271 Adding Text and Captions to a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Inserting a Word Balloon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Using Microsoft Word to Edit Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Design Your Own Greeting Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Create Hundreds of Greeting Cards with PhotoSuite . . . . . 278 Making a Card with PhotoDeluxe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Create an Illustrated Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Designing a Calendar Using PhotoSuite . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Creating a Calendar with PhotoDeluxe . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Use Microsoft Word to Create a Calendar from Scanned Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Making Novelty Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Produce Magazine Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 Making T-Shirts from Scanned Photos and Drawings . . . . . . . 290 Creating Customized Refrigerator Magnets . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 The Possibilities Are Endless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 CHAPTER 16 Communicating Through Scanned Photos . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Designing Stationery Using Scanned Photos and Images . . . . . 292 Designing Stationery That Makes a Statement . . . . . . . . 292 Creating Professional-Looking Stationery from Templates . 293 Experimenting with the PhotoSuite Stationery Templates . . 296 Creating Stationery with PhotoDeluxe . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Designing Business Cards, Fliers, Brochures, and Logos . . . . . 301 The Advantages of Making Your Own Business Cards . . . . 301 Make Your Own Logo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Promotional Fliers and Brochures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Use the Microsoft Word Newsletter Capabilities . . . . . . . 309 Add Stylistic Touches to Your Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . 311 Name Tags, Gift Tags, and Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Enclose a Distinctive Gift Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Make Photographic Name Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Illustrate Everyday Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 Create Coupons and Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 Add Impact to All Your Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 CHAPTER 17 Adding Scanned Images to Your Web Pages and Email . . . . 319 Choose the Best Way to Share Your Scanned Photos . . . . . . . . 320 A Word about the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 How Computers “Talk” on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 What You Need to Communicate on the Internet . . . . . . . 321 Contents xi Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Attaching Scanned Photos to Email Messages . . . . . . . . . . . 322 How Scanned Photos Travel over the Internet . . . . . . . . 322 Emailing an Image Using Your Scanner Software . . . . . . 323 Sending Email Directly from Your Image-Editing Program . 326 Attaching a File to an Email Message . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Email Your Photos Faster and Save Computer Space . . . . 330 Posting Scanned Photos on the Web Using a Communal Site . . . 332 Posting Your Pictures on PhotoSuite’s GatherRound.com . . 332 Using Adobe’s Shutterfly.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 Creating Your Own Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 Finding Server Space to Post Your Page . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Creating and Posting a Web Page Using PhotoSuite 4 . . . . 339 Creating Your Site for Free Using Yahoo! GeoCities . . . . . 343 Consider Microsoft FrontPage for Your Website . . . . . . . . . . 347 Sending Large Image Files Using a File Transfer Protocol . . . . 352 Evaluating Your Photo-Sharing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 xii Contents Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Acknowledgments My thanks to the terrifically creative and knowledgeable staff at Osborne, particularly acquisitions editor Megg Bonar and acquisitions coordinator Alissa Larson for their responsiveness and flexibility. Special thanks to technical editor Steve Bain, not only for his insight and attentiveness to accuracy, but also for actively coming up with many ideas for content. Credit for the great idea of covering useful shareware belongs to him. Sincere thanks to Laurie Stewart, and the able assistance of Beth Young, Lyssa Wald, and Michael Mueller, and to Maureen Forys, Laura Ryan, Andrea Fox, and Jack Lewis for all their efforts in getting this book to your shelves. Special thanks to my husband, Dan Welytok, and to all the friends and family members who served as tireless models for the photos that were the raw material for the scanning projects you see in this book. Thanks go out to a few folks who helped us with the images for the book’s cover, specifically: ■ Epson America and Darryll Harrison Jr. at Walt & Company ■ Hewlett-Packard Company and Nikki Riordan at Porter Novelli ■ Polaroid Corporation and Rachel Street ■ Gary Sloan, photographer (www.garysloan.com) ■ Visioneer Inc. and Mike Griffith Copyright 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. This page intentionally left blank. 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