One of the computer’s greatest weaknesses is filling in forms…until now! For a long time, I have recommended using FoxIt Reader as my PDF (Adobe portable document format) reader of choice. On and off, they have offered tools to help you fill in forms or annotate documents, but with their newest version, the form filler or typewriter tool is now… Read More »How to type on a PDF or scanned form – Video Tip
This week, I had a client who really wanted to control the onslaught of paper he was accumulating and was thinking of buying a $200-300 document scanner to help him with the project. I saved him the money by teaching him how to use his Brother all-in-one printer to do the same thing with the included Nuance PaperPort software. Click… Read More »How to scan documents to computer using Nuance’s PaperPort – Notes
HP continues to refine and change their scanning software…mostly for the better. However, many computer users detest change. These notes are ones I created for a long time Windows XP user who just moved to Windows 7 and needed some help with scanning. I have some previous HP Scanning notes you can read here, and these notes can be downloaded… Read More »How to Scan a Picture with HP Scan and Windows 7
Today’s notes were created for a cartoonist who has a Mac and has already learned how to scan in his cartoons (via my tutelage months ago), but now he wanted to learn how to add his captions using the computer. The goal was to get it done with as few steps as possible and with his existing software. We used Apple Pages… Read More »Notes from helping a cartoonist
These notes were generated for a customer using an older HP All-in-one printer. He needed to learn how to scan documents, save them, then attach them to his Yahoo email. For folks learning how to scan or attach items to Yahoo email, these notes will help.
I inserted a photo of the notes I created for a HP Scanner / All-in-One user today. Anyone using an HP scanning device with the HP Solution Center software will be able to use these notes to get the hang of using the scanner. You can also download the PDF version of these steps: Scanning a Photo or Document