Transcript Mid-Peninsula IBM PC Club Meeting November 21, 2005

Mid-Peninsula IBM PC Club Meeting
November 21, 2005
SnagIt Screen Capture
OmniPage Pro 14 OCR
IconSaver Utility
Jan Laskowski
[email protected]
SnagIt Screen Capture
 Windows image, text, & video capture program
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 Create separate capture profiles… individual
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 Mature - First released in 1990 for Win 3.1
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 $20 major upgrades, v6 -> v7
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OmniPage Pro 14 OCR
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scanned
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OmniPage Pro 14 OCR
Scanned table from magazine
OmniPage Pro 14 OCR
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OmniPage Pro 14 OCR
Digital Photo
OmniPage Pro 14 OCR
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IconSaver Utility
IconSaver is a small shareware utility that
saves & restores icons on the Desktop
Homepage: http://www.iconsaver.com
Mario Knok : E-mail: [email protected]
Evaluation period of 30 days
Registration fee $5. When you register IconSaver,
you are entitled to all future upgrades free of charge
IconSaver Utility
Supports Hotkeys - Save Icons, Restore
Icons, Show/Hide Tray Icon
Can automatically restore icons on startup
Allows Password protection
When you change the desktop resolution,
icons are automatically restored to saved
positions for that resolution.
IconSaver Editor can be used to
manipulate IconSaver's data in the registry
IconSaver Utility
http://www.iconsaver.com/index.html