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Question

A scanned document (or picture)

Jun 9, 2019 3:18PM PDT

I use Windows 10.

After I scan a page on my home scanner, store its image in my computer's pictures file, and then click on its thumbnail to see its image, I see the full page image. When I then click on the "magnify" button, I can see a portion of the page in its magnified form; (that magnified portion is somewhere in the middle of the page). But I see no facility to move around my mouse to see the remaining "invisible" magnified portion. If there is in fact no way to see that "invisible" magnified portion, that would be a strange limitation.

Please advise.

Thank you.

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Addendum to my above query
Jun 9, 2019 3:32PM PDT

I have found a "sort of" way out by doing the following:

If instead of using the "magnify" button, I use the cropping facility, I am able to crop whatever portion of the document and then "automatically" see its magnified form; then I have to crop the remaining portion so as to see its magnified form. This OK, but it seems a tiny bit "cumbersome."

Please advise.

Thank you.

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I'd use other image viewing apps.
Jun 9, 2019 3:54PM PDT

There are so many today. As this will be a personal choice, start with the ones at Ninite.com.

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Further Query
Jun 9, 2019 9:17PM PDT

Bob,

I immensely appreciate your help.

I have been using a PC for over 25 years, and yet I had no idea that I could view a stored document or page with an app other than the one which seems to be provided by Microsoft/Windows as a default viewer! (That viewer had been fairly satisfactory for my needs.) After reading your response, I looked in my pop down menu for the "Open with" options I already had in my computer for viewing stored documents or pictures. Out of them, Libreoffice Draw did for me what I was looking for, namely, to be able to move a viewed document up or down at whatever chosen magnification.

Microsoft/Windows' default viewer does have good features of facilitating viewing pictures through about a dozen filters, and also adjusting the light, color, clarity, and field intensity. Are there any other apps, which you know of, which provide those facilities even a little better --especially filters? I do not know how to look for such optional apps.

Once again, I thank you for the help you always promptly provide to people posting their diverse queries in the CNet Forum. And I marvel about your store of knowledge in OS and Apps.

Regards.

Chuck

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Thanks and about LibreOffice.
Jun 9, 2019 10:54PM PDT

That's one of my default "things I install" today.

As to filters I rarely do such work on my photos and scans. When I do I find myself in Paint.net (from Ninite.com) and doing atypical work where I'm reducing color count in an image for one of our apps. Most of the time it's resizing and cropping too. Filters are not used often enough for me to write much here except to try them and learn to Control+Z (undo) if you don't care for the result.

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Regarding "Filters"
Jun 9, 2019 11:17PM PDT

Bob,

Let me tell you the reason for my rather high interest in filters and other stuff like clarity, contrast, and so on.

Making pencil drawings is one of my passions. When I scan them for storing their copies in my computer, I find it frustrating to maintain in those copies faithful reproductions, for example, of the very light pencil strokes (such as while drawing clouds in the sky). So I have to keep struggling with those facilities for best reproductions!

Thank you for your expert help to me and other hundreds -- likely thousands -- of people with their own computer problems who seek help in this CNet Forum.

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Now that you wrote that.
Jun 10, 2019 1:13AM PDT

I do have a few tricks to get more out of my Canon t6i. I try to turn off auto everything and set it up on the tripod and work the lighting as best I can. I'll also cheat and take a shot (still on the tripod) with a smart phone. The key here is to get the camera and target stable since any movement and you lose quality.

Thanks for the kind words.

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Answer to "A scanned document (or picture)
Jun 12, 2019 9:19AM PDT

You might download and try Irfanview 4.53. I've used it for 25 years without problems and am always surprised at what it can do with photos. Of course it's no Photoshop, but then since I've retired I don't really need all the stuff Photoshop offers.