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Software equivalent to PaperPort
Name: satimis Date: January 25, 2004 at 20:50:09 Pacific OS: RH8.0 CPU/Ram: PII-350/256MB
Comment:
Hi folks,
I have been searching for a software from Open Source running on Linux/Unix equivalent to PaperPort/PageMaker/OmniPage/etc. for Win. They are graphic editing software with database integrated. They have a platform/table to retain scanned documents visually and combine them as a file. The file can be saved in many formats. Each page inside the file can be rearranged, i.e. page-1 can be re-inserted as page-13, etc. and all pages will be re-numbered automatically. The pages can be editted both graphically or textwise.
They have a powerful database to search documents on their titiles or contents. The database can be update at night at a pre-fixed time. The documents can be OCR.
To my understanding a graphic editing software such as GIMP can do the job. But the operation would not be so simple and handy.
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