I have, for years, used HP printers and I may have been spoiled by HP Scan, which is simple to use but quite effective for my purposes. Specifically, it has the following capabilities that I use quite frequently, but which do not seem to exist in IJ Scan:
- Preview of the full scanned area, with easy drag interface to crop the image. This makes it easy to scan odd sized things, such as ID cards, **bleep**, unusual photo sizes, etc.
- Simple adjustments for brightness and contrast and 90-degree rotation, on a page by page basis.
- Scanning of multiple page documents, one page at a time on the flatbed. You simply click a plus icon to scan the next page. Especially good for scanning articles in magazines or books.
- Easy deletion of pages, e.g. a page accidentally scanned twice of a blank page in a multi-page document.
All of these capabilities are there before you save the scan as a document. When you save the scan, you get a file dialog and name the file yourself, rather than having it saved as some formulaic name ("IMG" + suffix). Of course, HP Scan allows you to control resolution, scan size, output type, etc, as does IJ Scan, and it even has an OCR scan, though I have never used that capability.
A little web search shows there are numerous programs that allow you to control scanning, but most of them are either far more complicated (with more capabilities) or are substantially expensive - usually both.
Can anyone suggest an alternative scanner app/program for Windows 10 that would have all the capabilities in my bulleted list above, but without going overboard on added features? Doesn't have to be free, but I won't pay over $100 nor will I pay for a subscription.
Thanks.
