Is this possible?

[L.D.]

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.

 

[Kevin]

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.

 

[Mendel Leisk]

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.

 

[Perkata]

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.

 

[Ed]

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.