How to save papers, photos, and analog music digitally

Do you, like me, have paper documents that have long since been scanned and processed, records or music cassettes that you would like to listen to on your mobile phone, and photo prints that are planned for a digital photo book? Then you will appreciate the two-step instructions in this article, with which you can convert analog media to digital and then process them further. Scan documents and have text recognized Important insurance papers, contracts, invoices, or simply the page-long letter from your favorite aunt — there are many paper documents that you want to scan in order to preserve them. If it’s even a text that you want to search and edit, you can run OCR software over it after scanning, which recognizes the text so that you can search it and, if necessary, edit it with a standard word processor. Step 1: Scan documents With the freeware Not Another PDF Scanner 2 (Naps 2), you have plenty of options for editing and saving the scan after scanning a document. The tool is also very easy to use. IDG To digitize a paper document, you need a scanner and the corresponding software. The scanner can either be a combination printer with a scan function or a standalone device that can only scan. If you need to scan a lot of documents, you can also opt for a dedicated document scanner from Ricoh’s Scansnap family, for example. Depending on the model, these devices cost from around $350, are designed for high throughput, and are also capable... Continue reading at 'PC World'

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