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Image Scanning Convert photographs to digital files (JPEGs, TIFFs) to e-mail and share, to post to Web pages, or to burn to disk as appropriate by law. Instructions: Scanning Images Document Scanning (Creating PDF files) Convert documents to PDF for online submission, preservation, and sharing as appropriate by law. Please note: If you are scanning articles or PDFs, be sure to read our copyright notice. Instructions: Scanning to PDF Instructions: Scanning to Text (OCR) Ideas for Students: Convert paper copies of student projects, masters papers, dissertations to PDF files for submission to publishers or employers. Make a PDF copy of your résumé for your homepage or profile on a job Web site. Ideas for Faculty and Staff: Convert photocopies of articles to PDFs for "fair use" on Blackboard or a password-protected course Web page, manage personal research, or convert paper manuscripts to PDFs for submission to publishers. For copyright guidance, feel free to contact the Libraries' Copyright and Scholarly Communications Director. Optical character recognition (OCR) What is OCR? OCR is "a technology that lets you scan a printed page (with a scanner) and convert it into a text document that you can edit it in a word processor." (Source: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/glossary3.html) Example uses of OCR software Resurrect a paper document as a digital file. For example, scan the old copy of a paper no longer/never available in a digital format into OCR to instantly create an MS Word document. Convert documents from WordPerfect or plain text (.txt) to alternate formats, like MS Word. Instructions: Scanning to Text (OCR) More info: Wikipedia entry on optical character recognition CD and DVD burning Use CD-RW drives to burn your personal files to disk. Use the Burn to Disk command under Accessories in the Start Menu on the Windows desktop. Web authoring The programs Adobe Photoshop, HTML-Kit, Secure Shell SSH, and WS-FTP are available to users who need to further edit scanned images and documents for publication online. Web graphics editing Different versions of Adobe Photoshop are available in the scanner area. For advanced Web graphics work, the Mac G5 features Adobe Photoshop v. 7.0. The other stations feature Adobe Photoshop CS for basic image-editing tasks. Video editing and burning The Apple programs iMovie and iDVD are available to Mac users on the Mac G5 in the Scanner Area. A non-circulating iMovie and iDVD manual, iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual, is provided on the Scanning Station Reference Shelf for use at the workstations in the Library's Scanner Area only. Have questions or special needs?  Please do not hesitate to get in touch with Reference Staff. E-mail: reference@unc.edu

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