Free scanning software

If you want to use scanner then it is important for you to have scanning software otherwise your scanner cannot do much for you. The scanning software helps to interpret the light information and produces meaningful results. Scanning is done in two major stages. In first stage, the scanning software produces digital image of the paper and in the second stage the document is converted into computer readable text by optical character recognition software.

Scanning software are available in different categories, with simple to wide range of capabilities. There are many free scanning software available on internet. Make sure that the scanning software you are downloading for free from internet meet the needs that you do have. If you are thinking of installing scanning software on your computer, it is important for you to know about the features of many scanning software in order to decide which one is perfect for you. Therefore, some of the popular scanning software are mentioned below with their features.

Free Scanning Software

1. ScanWiz scanning software: This software is suitable for Microsoft Windows. It can make many page PDFs and tiff’s even with a flatbed scanner.  It is a PDF scanning program which is very easy to use.  If you wish to download this software on your computer then ensure that you have Pentium processor – 800 MHZ, 1 GB memory (RAM) SVGA Resolution Display and 30 MB Free Disk Space in your computer. This scan software uses G4 tiff compression which lets a typical page to be under 30 KB.  You can reorde the pages of scanned document. You can have detailed and thumbnail view of scans through this scan software. Moreover this software enables you to add pages to an existing PDF document. Using this software you can to tiff, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, and PNG.

2. VueScan 9 software: This scanning software works with most half quality   flatbed and film scanners to produce digital image of the documents with excellent color fidelity and color balance. This software is very easy to use and includes advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features that are mostly used by professional photographers.  This software works very fast as one can edit one document while the next document is being scanned, Most of the other scanning software lack this feature. This software is awarded as the “best utility” in 2002 by Mac Addict Magazine. This software is simple to installs moreover installing this software will not change anything in your system.

3. Scanitto Pro- scanner software with OCR: This scanner software is very light in weight fast and not overloaded with plenty of unnecessary features.  This software is perfect for copying simple txt sand image scanning with a tool. The main feature of this software is that it can save and scan images as BMP, JPG, TIFF, JP2 or PNG images.

Along with these there are many other popular scanning software available on internet such as Free OCR 3.0, Free Kapture 2.0, paperscan, Advanced IP scanner 2.0 and many more.