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Image Magick C# Library throwing exception

I suspect this is an easy one for you to help me solve.

I am trying to run a Visual Studio project that works on my friend's Windows PC, but is throwing a path/library exception on my Windows Visual Studio Community 2015,where Windows is running on my Mac via Parallels.

I verify the file exists, but then I get the following exception...

Message = "PDFDelegateFailed `The system cannot find the file specified.\r\n' @ error/pdf.c/ReadPDFImage/793"

and here is the code that throws it:

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Need to combine OCR generate fields into meaningful values.

I have an OCR engine working well as it generates a space delimited text file. But the small fragment need to be combined into something meaningful as a form of post processing.

For example, the text on the page says:

VS DB DB Business Card - Retail

But in space delimited form, this is 7 fields.

I already have a finite list of about 25 possible strings, and can embed then in an array, such as

"VS DB CPS/Retail"
"VS DB DB Business Card - Retail"

so, I need to post-process the OCR generated file to be comma quote delimited, and use one of these pre-defined strings, when the OCR finds them.

What is a good paradigm for this?

Also, given this is OCR, there is a chance for a read error.

Thanks.

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IP4IT Staff

2018-10-26Solved

How to reduce the file size of a PDF

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Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE

2018-10-26

How to Install Microsoft Office Picture Manager in Office 2019

Microsoft Office Picture Manager was included in Office 2003, 2007, and 2010, but not in 2013 or 2016. Now that Office 2019 is here, the bad news is that it is still missing, but the good news is that the same no-cost method that works to install it with Office 2013 and 2016 also works with 2019.

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Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE

2018-10-17

How to put a date-time stamp on a PDF file with free software - Foxit Reader

I previously published an Experts Exchange video Micro Tutorial that describes how to scan documents to a PDF file using an excellent, free product called Foxit Reader:

How to scan to a PDF file with free software

N.B.: As with any "free" software, there may be restrictions, which are always specified in the software's licensing agreement, typically known as the End-User License Agreement (EULA). I encourage you to read the entire EULA of this product to be certain that you are in license compliance.

This new video Micro Tutorial shows where to download the free Foxit Reader and explains how to use it to place a date-time stamp on a PDF file.

1. Download and Install the Free Version of Foxit Reader

Visit the website for Foxit Reader at Foxit Software:

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/

Select the language and O.S. from the drop-downs, then click the big, red Download button:

After downloading, run the installer.

2. Run Foxit Reader

The installer creates a Foxit Reader program group with a shortcut to the Foxit Reader program.

Click the shortcut to run Foxit Reader.

3. Put a pre-defined date-time stamp on the PDF

After opening a PDF file, click the Comment menu.

Click the drop-down on the Stamp button.

Click one of the five pre-defined Dynamic Stamps, all of which have a date-time stamp.

Position the mouse wherever you want the stamp and click to place it.

4. Create a custom date-time stamp

Click the drop-down on the Create button.

Click Create Custom Dynamic Stamp.

Select a Stamp Template and fill in the options in the dialog box.

Click Add.

Click OK.

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by:Andrew Leniart2018-10-14

Another great "Winograd Micro Tutorial" :)

Good stuff Joe, should be highly useful to point askers to.

Endorsed!

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by:Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE2018-10-14

Hi Andrew,
Thank you for the kind words and the endorsement — I really appreciate both! Regards, Joe

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Theo

2018-09-26

Paperport cannot send to Outlook

In Paperport 14.5 I drag a file to the Outlook icon in the sendto bar. It then goes to work but ends with the message: 'The command line argument is not valid verify the switch'you are using'. So no email is created. I am on Outlook 2010 (on W10). Any ideas?

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Theo

2018-09-26Solved

Cannot get Paperport running

I have used Paperport 14.5 for many years and also in W10. I cannot tell since when exactly, but I can not get it running anymore. A splash screen appears for a few seconds and then disappears. Thats it. I have applied the patch and I have tried to adjust the compatibility, but all to no avail. I have read the solutions in an earlier question (*) on this, but that user had just upgraded whereas I had it working on W10.
Then I downloaded the 633 mb professional update. Installing it gave me a few messages about a discussion on the serial, but even after that finished the program wouldnt start. I am now going to restart the computer and see if that helps. Then apply the patch again

(*) https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28955421/I-have-PaperPort-14-Pro-just-upgraded-to-W10-Paperport-won't-run-followed-your-link-to-install-14-5-merely-reinstalled-14-how-do-I-get-Paperport-to-run-on-Windows-10.html

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Question by

snoopaloop

2018-09-24Solved

Twain hardware compatible list

Twain compatible home office MFPs. We are testing the Paperport software with Brother MFC-9340CDW. The reason for this was the Canon MX series scanner software was acting a bit wonky over the years and the printer is five years old. We actually really like the MP Navigator software but as discussed in our previous thread, MP Navigator is no longer being made for the later MX series. Thus, we were turned on to Paperport document management software. It came with the Brother MFC-9340CDW. Though, I don't think it works with network shares unless I upgrade but I digress. Anyway, my question is... Could I have avoided maybe purchasing new hardware and just bought better document management software? The reason I ask is Paperport prompted me to connect with the Canon hardware using Twain. Did I just assume most 100 or $200 MFP weren't TWAIN compatible? A google query of Canon MX twain shows nothing of the sort. The better question is how common is Twain compatibility (is there a list?) so I can push Document Management software on to some of my other clients? They too have horrible document management software.

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snoopaloop

2018-09-10Solved

Scan Document and Document Management Software

Need reasonably priced Home Office Twain compatible scanning documents software. MP Navigator suite me well for years but they no longer distribute it with the Canon MX series MFP. What's a really intuitive scanning software that initiates the scan for ADF or flatbed, makes simple adjustments for single or double sides series of documents, and gives you options for a couple standard formats like PDF or tif, etc? Is there a really intuitive and elegantly done software that does all that plus organizes your scan documents well?

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Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE

2018-08-24

How to scan to a PDF file with free software - Foxit Reader

I've published three five-minute Experts Exchange video Micro Tutorials that describe terrific features in an excellent, free PDF product called PDF-XChange Editor:

How to rotate pages in a PDF with free software
How to OCR pages in a PDF with free software
How to password-protect a PDF with free software

PDF-XChange Editor has many other features in its free version, but, unfortunately, it cannot do scanning — you must purchase one of its non-free versions to get scanning functionality. Fortunately, there's another excellent, free PDF product that can perform scanning — Foxit Reader. However, the free Foxit Reader cannot do OCR, so you'll want to keep the free PDF-XChange Editor for its OCR capability, and add Foxit Reader for its scanning capability. The combination of the two products will allow you to create searchable PDFs (aka PDF Searchable Image files) with your scanner, utilizing free software.

N.B.: As with any "free" software, there may be restrictions, which are always specified in the software's licensing agreement, typically known as the End-User License Agreement (EULA). I encourage you to read the entire EULA of these products to be certain that you are in license compliance.

In order to scan, Foxit Reader requires an …

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by:Basem Khawaja2018-10-12

Joe if I say you are a genius. It would be an understatement. God bless you my friend:)

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by:Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE2018-10-13

Hi Basem,
Thank you for the kind words and the video endorsement...both very much appreciated! Regards, Joe

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Question by

gsswho6

2018-07-26

Picture/Image upload to web software?

Hello All,

Does anyone know of a software that would achieve the below?

Software that will allow me to have users via my website upload pictures and save these pictures locally inside my network? The idea is for certain users to upload a picture, get prompted to name that picture and save it to either my system or its own system... Then I will build into my internal applications a way to grab that picture when querrying the name of that picture... Sort of like a document imaging system I guess but with actual pictures and a web interface for the user to upload the picture rather than an internal scanner.

much appreciated on the responses.

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newbieweb

2018-07-25Solved

Baby steps with PDFtoText for OCR

Baby steps with PDFtoText for OCR

What steps are the first for me to take as I create a proof of concept that will be:

- a C# Winforms program
- uses the PDFtoText library for OCR

Are there any demo programs I can review? Should I just dive in?

Thanks

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Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE

2018-07-11

PaperPort will not install - the installer detected a previous installation

PaperPort installer detected previous installation

You did a proper uninstallation of PaperPort. You even ran the official PP14 Remover Tool. But when you try to reinstall PaperPort, you get the dialog box above, which you can't get past. There is simply no way to install PaperPort! This article presents a solution that has worked for many PP users.

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Hello Randal,

Thanks for the email, however I don’t think I have joined your service. An article by your Joe Winograd came up when I was searching for how to fix an issue with my scanner & Paperport 14. Unfortunately, having followed his various suggestions I am no further along, other than now I have uninstalled the old Paperport so may be royally in a pickle.

I am not an IT professional so not eligible for membership of your community. I am just someone who uses a PC and wishes we could go back to the olden days when you installed software from discs and the PC just happily went along until you decided to do something to it. Nowadays I feel like I would be justified sending a monthly invoice to Microsoft for all the work they make me do trying to figure out how to sort the issues caused by their latest ‘helpful’ update.

Please give my best to Mr Winograd. In case he’s still interested in Windows 10 and Paperport, here’s what happens when I try to installed 14.5 from the link provided in his article:

This runs:

Then I’m asked to select my language and this pops up (normally in English – must have accidentally clicked Deutsche this time!):

I’ve done a Windows uninstalled and the special Nuance uninstall, rebooted between each stage and still the same as above.

I did also download the patch (Patch 1) which he suggested but guess there’s not a lot I can do with the patch if I can’t get the .exe to run.

I am now going away to have a …

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Sometimes PaperPort will not even open. It displays the splash screen (above) and exits, or it may show an "Application Crash" dialog before exiting (sometimes with a dump, sometimes not). There are many reasons for this problem. This article discusses several of them and offers possible solutions.

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Hi,
Iam looking for a solution using imagemagic to combine multiple tiff files to to single tiff file in the DIR, which has sub folders.

Let me explain

There are multiple sub folders which contains tiff images, lets take in a particular folder there could be 2 or more images which needs to be combined as one image.
I tried the basic concept and it works

convert 0003_404.tif 0030.tif 1_merged.tif ( Here i have changed the dir and run the comand which combines two tiff images to a single tiff

i was also trying to use the below , not sure how far good.

for %f in (%cd% D:\subfolders\) do (convert 0007.tif 0011_623.tif +append 1_merged.tif)

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Sometimes PaperPort will not even open. It displays the splash screen (above) and exits, or it may show an "Application Crash" dialog before exiting. There are many reasons for this, but a recent cause that has reached epidemic levels is due to an issue with Firefox. This article offers a solution.

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I had the problem with the splash screen appearing, and then exiting. I edited the registry to change it from firefox to explorer. Voila! Opened fine. closed PP, opened it again, all good. That was yesterday. Today though, PP again would exit after the splash screen. When I checked the registry, i see that it had changed back to firefox. So I edited the registry, again changing it to explorer. And PP now again opens without trouble. So, am I going to have to edit the registry every time? Or is there a way to make the edits "stick"? I am using Firefox 63.0.1

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by:Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE3d

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Hi Len,
I haven't had to fix it again since I first fixed it. I recently upgraded to Firefox 63.0.1 (64-bit) and PaperPort still opened fine. I did not even look at the registry entry since PaperPort was still working. But I just looked at the registry to be certain and its value is still "xxx" (which is what I set it to). So, I don't know why yours would keep changing...I don't have a clue what is changing it. If you can't figure it out, I would put the .REG file on your desktop or in your Start menu or pin it to the taskbar so that you have very fast access to it and can fix the problem quickly with a single or double mouse click. I'd like to provide you with better help, but I don't know why it's happening. Regards, Joe

P.S. Thanks for endorsing the article...much appreciated!

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PaperPort loses connection to scanning device.

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I had this question after viewing I have PaperPort 14 Pro, just upgraded to W10, Paperport won't run. followed your link to install 14.5, merely reinstalled 14. how do I get Paperport to run on Windows 10?.

In my case this is the problem 'PPDesktopView'. How do I fix this

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Standalone open source or commerical software which uses Google OCR to be used.

Assume i bought and have the valid Google Vision API credentials and would like to know does any standalone open source or commercial client is available which is already integrated with Google Vision API which has other features as well.

Basically want to convert image to text....bulk conversion etc. via an application,

Thanks.

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tracyms

2018-04-18Solved

Document Scanning Using Vbscript

I have a scanner script that I got from here:

http://beaukey.blogspot.com/2015/09/document-scan-with-vbsscript-and-wia.html

OPTION EXPLICIT

'--- dim objects...
dim wsh, fso, objWIAdialog, objImage, imgFilename
set wsh=CreateObject("wscript.shell")
set fso=CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject")
set objWIAdialog = CreateObject("WIA.CommonDialog") 

'--- Start the Scanner dialog box, where a scanner can be selected...
set objImage = objWIADialog.ShowAcquireImage

'--- Save and show the scan if the scan was successful...
If Not objImage Is Nothing Then 
    Randomize
    imgFilename=fso.GetSpecialFolder(2) & "\Scan2BMP" &  Int((999999 - 100000 + 1) * Rnd + 100000) & ".jpg" 
    wscript.echo "Scan stored as BMP in file: " & imgFilename
    objImage.SaveFile imgFilename 
    wsh.run(imgFilename)
End if

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It works fine. I would like to tweak it so after it scans, it opens Adobe (I have the full version on Adode CS) instead of windows Image Viewer. I also don’t want to save the file, just have it scan and open in Adobe – is that possible?

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Daren Anderson, MSIS

2018-03-29Solved

Scan printed Excel document

I have a printed Excel workbook with all the cells with squares printed around them - not sure how else to say that. Is there any program that could scan that information in from the printed sheet and put in an Excel document? No, I don't have access to original document.

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I have an issue with all the Fillable PDF Forms, if I log in through terminal server into my shared Drives (we use Terminal servers for offsite users) and open any Fillable PDF Forms the fields are all blank but if I go directly to those forms on the share drive while I'm on the network without using TS all the forms are filled, the form were created on computers with Windows as an operating system (not a MAC), Both the Adobe Acrobat reader on the local machines and the terminal server are (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC) Version 2018.011.22.8, both have identical Adobe reader settings so I'm not sure what is causing the issue

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Jerry Chiplinski

2018-03-11Solved

Paporport 14.5 and Windows 10

I have used Nuance Paperport 14.5 on windows 10 for at least a year now. Something happened the other day and I don't know what but now when I try to use the program itctells,me I seem to be running in the windows xp comparability mode and each time I try to use the program it shuts down. I have uninstalled reinstalled, run registry cleaners, contacted the manufacturer of my scanner (Brother) and Nuance along with a whole host of other things and nothing works. Help!!!

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Nuance's PaperPort may display this error message: PaperPort appears to be running Windows XP Compatibility Mode which may result in errors. We recommend disabling Compatibility Mode for the PaprPort.exe program, see Technote 6629. This article provides a possible solution to the problem.

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by:Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE2018-08-31

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Hi Christophe,
You're very welcome...and thanks to you for joining Experts Exchange today, reading my article, and letting me know that it worked for you...I'm glad to hear that! If you take a moment to endorse the article by clicking the thumbs-up icon at the bottom of the article (not the one under this comment), I'll be grateful. Welcome aboard to EE! Regards, Joe

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by:Joe Winograd, Fellow&MVE2018-09-03

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Thanks for endorsing the article, Christophe — much appreciated! Regards, Joe

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1. Download and Install the Free Version of Foxit Reader

2. Run Foxit Reader

3. Put a pre-defined date-time stamp on the PDF

4. Create a custom date-time stamp

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