HiI am a bookscanner and scan pages with digital cameras on my book scanner; I then process the pages in Adobe Lightroom 3 and Scan Tailor, followed by compilation of the images in Acrobat to produce a .pdf eBook. Recently I was able to figure out how to use "Preflight" to separate text and images into layers, and this does exactly what I needed, which was to remove the background image and leave only the text visible on a white background as I toggled "off" the "image" layer. So here's my problem:
Most of the books I scan are only text, but some have images that I want to keep visible in the final eBook. However, I never want to have visible the "background" or the actual paper book page from the original scanned file. The problem is that when I toggle-off the image layer to remove the unsightly background to produce a clean white background, the other "images" become invisible as well. In the book I'm currently working on, the part I want to keep is musical score selection, which consists of text, vector images, and regular image layers (background and musical notes). I wonder if there is a selection tool or something that would allow me to select the musical score as something I want to keep and put it on a totally separate layer AND still be able to remove the unsightly/gray background from the musical score/that new layer?
"Layers" has allowed me to attain about 90% success with this eBook project and others like it, but finding the answer to this particular question would allow me to attain 100% of my desired result as some books do contain multiple/separate images. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.
If needed, I can email you a sample page to better understand my dilemma.
Topics is the latest product output from Project Cortex, bringing artificial intelligence (AI) to empower people with knowledge and expertise in the apps they use every day and to connect, manage, and protect content across systems and teams. It is also the first one of four disclosed Microsoft Viva modules to be released.
This one is for page authors or site owners that design a lot of content on their site home page. If you're new to using web parts, one thing the team discovered was the lack of discovery - of all the useful web parts.
A lightbox popup is a window overlay that appears on top of a webpage. With this update, when people click or tap on an image in SharePoint, they will be able to see a larger version of the image in the lightbox. When viewing the image in the lightbox, the remainder of the page is inactivated and dimmed.
We are adding the ability to target specific audiences per link within the Quick Links Web Part. With it, you will be able to target specific links to different audiences, helping you provide more personalized experiences on SharePoint pages.
This is an admin feature designed to help coordinate and schedule launch details for SharePoint sites that are expected to receive high volumes of traffic. The Portal Launch wizard available via SharePoint PowerShell is designed to configure the deployment waves when launching a new site. It also provides an automatic redirect for users dependent on which redirect option is selected.
During each of the waves, you can gather user feedback and monitor performance. This provides a managed way to slowly introducing the portal, giving you the option to pause and resolve issues before proceeding; ultimately ensuring a positive experience for your users from start to fully launched.
With Microsoft Lists and SharePoint lists, owners and members have the ability to add a thousands separator to numbers and to be able to choose their preferred symbol that best represents what the numbers represent - like the various currency symbols used across the world.
Yes, the power of metadata in the hands of those that need to manage document library content as the business prescribes. This new feature gives you the ability to add taxonomy-powered columns directly to library views in modern SharePoint libraries.
With this update, users will see a new Managed metadata option as a column type within the Add column menu in SharePoint lists and libraries. Then simply specify the column information such as name and description as well as choose their organization's desired term set or term, to associate the column with. From there, the use of that column is driven by the managed metadata coming from the programmed, managed term set.
This is a quick and simple one, with lots of power for sites that have been around a while and may still be in classic mode. We are expanding the reach of Microsoft Search; classic SharePoint team sites that do not have customized search experience will be updated to the modern Microsoft Search experience, bringing improved personalization and relevance.
Initially, text predictions popped up in Outlook for Windows - during composition to help users write more efficiently by predicting text quickly and accurately. Now, text predictions are coming to Microsoft Word when writing documents in English. And we know a lot of Word document are created in Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
As you type, you'll see suggested text, which you can accept by tapping the Tab key or they can ignore suggestions by simply continuing to type. The feature reduces spelling and grammar errors and learns over time to give the best recommendations based on your writing style.
Note: this is a Microsoft 365 connected experience, and can be turned off by going to any Microsoft 365 application such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint and going to File > Account > Manage Settings. This feature can also be managed through the policy settings for privacy controls.
And with the evolution, beyond a new name, comes some dynamic new features, like intelligent actions into the camera, including: Image to Text, Image to Table, Image to Contact, Immersive Reader, and QR Code Scan.
We are releasing an improved scan experience allowing you to re-order pages, re-edit scanned PDFs, apply a filter to all images in the document, scan up to 100 pages as images or PDFs, easily switch between local and cloud locations while saving PDF, along with an easy way to identify local and cloud files.
We're noting it here because Microsoft Lens powers the camera in Microsoft 365 mobile apps, including Office, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive - yes, OneDrive loves lens - scan, scan, scan the physical world right where it needs to be stored digitally.
After years of hearing from AskBob readers about PC Matic, I finally decided it was time to give the popular antivirus and PC optimizer software a test drive. So 18 months ago, I did just that, and published my PC Matic review. At the time, I was impressed enough to ditch my current security software, and entrust my home and office computers to PC Matic. A year and a half later, I'm giving PC Matic a ZERO. But wait... that's actually a GOOD thing! Read on for my updated review and recommendation...PC Matic Review - Part DeuxI've written about PC optimizers, computer security, and antivirus software many times over the years. And every time I've published an article on these topics, AskBob readers would write and ask "Why didn't you mention PC Matic?" I had seen the PC Matic TV commercials, and I thought they were a bit on the corny side. And I was happy with whatever I was using at the time, so I brushed them off. But eventually, the number of AskBob readers imploring me to check out PC Matic was too large to ignore.
I've been running PC Matic since September 2018, and as I mentioned in the opening lines of this article, I've given it a score of ZERO. That's ZERO for how many times my computers were infected by viruses, spyware, or ransomware. ZERO for the number of times the software nagged me to upgrade or buy some related service. And ZERO for how many times the company sold my personal information to third-party data brokers.Ransomware is everywhere now. Every day we read stories about another user, school, business, or government office being impacted by ransomware. Just this week, ransomware forced the shutdown of a natural-gas pipeline for two days. It's obvious that in all of these attacks, the installed antivirus software FAILED to protect the computer that was infected.
You might remember the recent stories about Avast, the popular antivirus company, caught selling "highly sensitive" data about their customers' web browsing activities. For years, Avast was tracking clicks and collecting data on Google searches, YouTube videos and other online activities. That data was then sold to advertisers. They actually promised their clients "Every search. Every click. Every buy. On every site." This is an internet security firm, whose software has full access to EVERYTHING that happens on your computer, and they're selling that data to the highest bidder. Outrageous, but it seems that is the price you pay for "free" software and online services.In response, PC Matic published a Data Integrity Pledge which outlines how the company collects and protect your personal information. In summary, they promise not to sell or distribute your personal information, web browsing history, or data about the performance of your computer.
AV-Test, the independent security testing lab, gave PC Matic a perfect score in Protection and Performance in their latest round of testing. They dinged PC Matic in the Usability category, due to a number of false positives for legitimate software. But that's the beauty of whitelisting. If a program is not on the list of "known good" programs, PC Matic puts up a warning and only lets it run if the user approves.So yes, 18 months ago I gave my credit card number to PC Matic, paid the $50 and became the owner of a 5-seat license. I confess it felt weird to buy software I had not thoroughly checked out. But all those recommendations from my own readers and the money-back guarantee persuaded me to give it a try, and thus far I'm a very happy camper.Last month I upgraded my last Windows 7 laptop to Windows 10, so I decided to install the PC Matic software on that computer. There were a few minor glitches in my 2018 install, but this time everything worked flawlessly. The software started up and prompted me to run an initial scan. To my surprise, it flagged three potentially malicious programs that Avast had allowed in. There was also an option to turn on the PC Matic Adblocker extension.
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