Example: I have 3 pages of printed information someone has faxed me and
I want to save it on my computer. I want to scan these and put them in a
file that I can open and see all 3 pages by just scrolling up and down
to see them.
Is this possible? Another example: I have a project I'm building, say a
bookshelf. I go to down to buy supplies several times. I want to scan
these receipts and put them in a file, again where I can see them all at
once by scrolling.

You would need software that can merge the images of the three pages, or OCR
software that can scan them into a word processor like Microsoft Word or
Corel Word Perfect. As for your receipts, I just place my receipts on the
scanner, aligning the individual receipts to fit as many on the scan bed as
possible, and scan to file. Save as a jpeg, or you'll be generating
multi-megabyte files if you save as a tiff. No need to scan in color,
you're just making digital copies for record keeping.

"L.D." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Example: I have 3 pages of printed information someone has faxed me and
> I want to save it on my computer. I want to scan these and put them in a
> file that I can open and see all 3 pages by just scrolling up and down
> to see them.
> Is this possible? Another example: I have a project I'm building, say a
> bookshelf. I go to down to buy supplies several times. I want to scan
> these receipts and put them in a file, again where I can see them all at
> once by scrolling.

I would highly recommend Abbyy FineReader. Ver. 7.0 is latest, though
it seems no better than 6.0, in my experience. 6.0 is a little less
error prone than 5.0

I've found FineReader to be head and shoulders above anything else I
tried. Not perfect, but pretty damn close. You can split book pages,
add extra returns at paragraph breaks, export in various formats.

Mendel Leisk wrote:
> I would highly recommend Abbyy FineReader. Ver. 7.0 is latest, though
> it seems no better than 6.0, in my experience. 6.0 is a little less
> error prone than 5.0
>
> I've found FineReader to be head and shoulders above anything else I
> tried. Not perfect, but pretty damn close. You can split book pages,
> add extra returns at paragraph breaks, export in various formats.
I agree about with Michael Leisk on the subject of FineReader, but
PaperPort can scan the pages and make a single file of them in either
its own graphics format or in jpg. PaperPort is much less expensive than
FineReader and is designed to make the use of documents painless.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
> Example: I have 3 pages of printed information someone has faxed me and
> I want to save it on my computer. I want to scan these and put them in a
> file that I can open and see all 3 pages by just scrolling up and down
> to see them.
> Is this possible? Another example: I have a project I'm building, say a
> bookshelf. I go to down to buy supplies several times. I want to scan
> these receipts and put them in a file, again where I can see them all at
> once by scrolling.
>
You can scan them into Irfanview (which is freeware) and save as multi-
page tiff file.