A Simple Solution for Dealing with Duplicate Images

Most of us have sworn that we will never go back to using our old film cameras now that we have started using a digital camera. The digital cameras are just so nice. The best part about them is that we no longer have to pay to develop a roll of film only to discover that the pictures we took were terrible.

Even thought the digital camera is one of the trendiest gadgets available today, that doesn’t mean that digital cameras aren’t without flaws. We have a tendency to take a whole bunch of photos and then leave them on the hard drive of our computers. This takes up a great deal of our computers memory. One of the most confusing things about the digital photos is how we end up with so many duplicate copies of the photos.

How We Get Duplicate Images

The reason that most of us get so many duplicate photos is that, since we don’t have to worry about developing the film, we take lots of photos of one thing. We figure that we will keep the best photo and delete the ones that didn’t turn out quite as nice. The problem is that it can be hard to see all of the photo’s features in your camera’s LCD screen so you transfer all of the photos to your computer where you know that the large screen will make it easier to select the best shot.

The problem is that when you upload your duplicate images from your digital camera to your computer it can sometimes be very difficult to figure our where the duplicate images have gone.

Until recently the only way to find your duplicate photos was to spend hours on your computer, slowly picking your way through photo after photo and moving the ones you wanted to keep to their very own individual file. Not only was this project time consuming it was also mind numbing.

A Better Solution

The good news is that there is an easier way to sort through your duplicate images. All you have to do is purchase some image comparison software. After you install the software onto your computer it will scan your digital photos for you and automatically store all the similar photos in one file that you will be able to find easily the next time you want to work with your pictures.

Digital comparison software is simple, easy to use, and won’t take up a large portion of your computer’s hard drive.

Although you will have to pay for the software, the amount of time that you save sorting through and organizing your digital photos will justify the cost.

admin 8 March 2010 Software image comparison software No Comments

ABBYY FineReader 10- The Next Level OCR Software

Text recognition is now taken to the next level by ABBYY with its brand new product ABBYY FineReader 10. ABBYY is a well known provider of data capturing, document and language recognition. This is the latest version of the OCR (optical character recognition) application of professional level. This extra intelligent software simplifies your work by helping you in creating amendable and searchable electronic files. You can perform this by using PDFs, scanned documents and digital photographs. With the help of this powerful software you can easily reveal data into documents and images. These documents and mages can be further transformed into simple and controllable form. This Fine Reader helps you out in recognizing documents page wise, no matter if the document is complex and multi-page.

This software is based on the new generation of Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT). By using this technology, FineReader 10 analyses the multi-page, complex documents as the single entity. It has third generation Camera Optical Character Recognition which can read photos clicked with phones easily. It has flexible HTML and saves the E books to the HTML chapters. In this version, Page Layout Analysis is further improved. Two new languages, Korean and Yiddish, for recognition purpose are also featured in this new version.

1. OCR Accuracy and format retention is outstanding.
2. Language support is comprehensive.
3. Barcode Recognition can also be done.
4. High Speed Multicore Processing is featured.
5. ABBYY screenshot reader is the bonus application in this.
6. The usability is enhanced with Interface revisions and new quick tasks.

1. ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional /edition
2. ABBYY FineReader 10 Corporate Edition
3. ABBYY FineReader 10 Site License Edition.

You can choose any according to your need and purpose.

admin 30 December 2009 Software ocr conversion, ocr scanning 2 Comments

ABBYY Scan Station Document Scanning Software

ABBYY has launched its ABBYY Scan Station. ABBYY Scan Station is a user friendly document imaging application with which you can easily transform your loads of documents into accessible and well structured form in few minutes. This works as an ideal device for the high volume as well as small amount of documents scanned everyday.

There are number of features and benefits of this ABBYY Scan Station.
1. The user friendly interface of ABBYY Scan Station enables your organization to get the images right away. It saves your staff training time.
2. It is very easy to navigate between documents and batches. You can also have a view of batch and document structure.
3. You can easily drop images by simply dragging them.
4. Organization of multi-page documents becomes effortless with this. With the help of ABBYY Scan Station, automatic separation of pages. can be done. For this you have to apply page count, Barcodes or Patch codes and blank Pages. It deletes the separation sheets automatically. You can add on documents, delete them and rescan them with no difficulty. You can also change the order of pages; drop the images by dragging from one document or batch to another.
5. With this you can eliminate your routine job of naming the files and folders. ABBYY Scan Station can do this work automatically and structure the files and folders immediately. This scheme is featured in compliance with corporate standards. In this scheme various parameters are provided such as recognition of 1D and 2D barcodes on the document separation sheets.
6. One of the key features of this scan station is that it has a special redaction tool with which you can edit confidential data on the images.
7. It has image enhancement tools for the post-scan images which include tools for fast scaling, redaction, inverting, rotation and many more. By using these tools user can easily edit the images for better look and recognition accuracy of data.