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Offline Stuving

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Software to make simple facsilimes?
« on: Sunday 26 October 08 19:16 GMT (UK) »
I've got several old documents that I'd like to scan and copy so as to protect the originals. They are nothing like current paper sizes, of course. None of the software I've got will:
  • Take in a multi-page scan of two-sided pages in a common format.
  • Let you crop each page by hand.
  • Print the pages two-sided and aligned (e.g. centred).
Can anyone suggest some standard (ideally free) image handling software that will do that? I'm only talking about working copies that give a bit of the feel of the original, not lifelike replicas. I find the pre-sale descriptions of software don't tell you this level of detail. Of course I think this is something lots of other people want to do, but maybe it's not.

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Re: Software to make simple facsilimes?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 October 08 20:52 GMT (UK) »
Do you have any word processing software , MS Word ? etc
If so scan them and insert them into a Wird document. That would be simplest method
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