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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
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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
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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
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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
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