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[Magebomba]

Are there any free programs to use with scangear to view and manage the scans?

[charm5496]

XP comes with picture viewer for JPEG. Paint should do the same.

[D_L_P]

There are lots out there but the one I recommend the most and use myself is irfanview. I find it very easy to use and perfect for editing (resizing/cropping) images to post on the web or e-mail. You can download it here:

IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

Other popular ones are paperport or e-copy. You will have to google them along with the word "free" to find them though. E-copy desktop CD's are usually easy to find since Canon includes it with some of their scanning products.

[ymmtech]

Do you refer to scangear for IR400, using SCSI cable ?

[SCREWTAPE]

Do you refer to scangear for IR400, using SCSI cable ?

No.

[irtek]

The best free program I have found was on a setup disk that came with a Brother mfp. Is is Scansoft Paperport 11 SE. With it you can save the scan as a PDF, Word, Powerpoint, Excel, send to ftp, send to email, and zip it. Very easy to use.

[Magebomba]

thanks for the suggestions guys!
ftr i tried both paperport and irfanview. both work great but like irfanveiw better, personal prefernce. just wanted to have sokething on thumb drive i could give to customers for free, without expense of ecopy like stuffs.

[junkiemanxl]

try XnView
Great all round twain scan software. its free but there's a downfall to the software. When scanning to PDF, files can get pretty huge. But just use a pdf coversion software are the size will be small again.

[ymmtech]

Try Softi Scan to Pdf, it generate a very small pdf file.