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Imaging for Windows XP
Kodak/Wang Imaging is a neat program which first came out with Win95 as "Wang Imaging". Kodak bought it from Wang Laboratories and changed the name so it came with Win98 as "Kodak Imaging". Kodak later sold Imaging to eiStream, Inc. who started selling it separately rather than licensing it to Microsoft to be bundled with Windows so it disappeared from Windows XP which is a shame as it was a neat little program. You can now buy Imaging for Win XP for an exhorbitant price from www.alliancegroup.co.uk.
::Update:: It seems Imaging is now owned by Global360.
Imaging is a great program for something very specific which is to scan, view, edit, handle and annotate documents like faxes and similar documents. I am not going to go into much detail because if you are reading this you probably already know Imaging. Whenever I need to scan a document with several pages I use Imaging and scan it directly into a multipage TIFF file. Using Fax4 compression gives the best compression efficiency.
What I like best in Imaging is the capability of making annotations on documents like forms. You can type, draw, erase, etc. These annotations can be left as a separate layer, removed or made permanent.
When I installed Win XP I spent some hours getting Imaging to work with XP. I finally found a solution online but it took some time and tinkering. I found the solution here. The thread makes for good reading as there is some discussion about whether it is legal to port your Imaging program from Win 9X to Win XP.
Unfortunately the geocities link is dead because geocities disappeared. I was sure I had kept a copy but could not find it when I needed it so I contacted the author, Ruben Benjamin, and he emailed it to me again, for which many thanks. (Sure enough, as soon as I received it in the email I found the copy I had saved on my hard disk.) Ruben has given me his permission to host the file here. To download it click here. Run the install.bat file and it will do the entire installation automatically.
I still use Imaging regularly and it does everything I need.
It is a shame that we are forced to stop using perfectly good programs
and purchase and learn new programs to do what we were already doing
perfectly well. I try to continue to use my old programs whenever I can.
Netmeeting, and Photodeluxe are others.
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