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{{Short description|Software product for scanning paper documents}}

{{Infobox Windows component

{{distinguish|Windows Imaging Component}}

| name = Imaging for Windows

{{Infobox software

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| screenshotname = Imaging for Windows

| included_withlogo = Imaging Windows Icon.png

| replaces logo_size = 32px

| replaced_by screenshot = [[WindowsImaging Picturefor andWindows FaxScreenshot Viewer]]Win2000Pro.png

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| caption = Imaging for Windows running under [[Windows 2000|Windows 2000 Professional]]

| support_status = Discontinued

| developer = [[Microsoft]]

| replaced_by = [[Windows Picture and Fax Viewer]]

| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows]]

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'''Imaging for Windows''' from ''Global 360'' is [[document imaging]] software. Earlier versions of Imaging for Windows were includedavailable infor [[Windows 95/ OSR2]], [[Windows 98/]], [[Windows Me/]], [[Windows NT/ 4.0]], [[Windows 2000]]. Global360 Imaging for Windows is the upgrade to this Imaging software, which was discontinued as of [[Windows XP]].<ref>[{{cite web|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308979 |title=Kodak imaging for Windows is not included with Windows XP]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016061201/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308979 |archive-date=2007-10-16 |access-date=2018-06-24|publisher=Microsoft}}</ref> Its image viewing, editing and scanning functions are superseded by [[Windows Picture and Fax Viewer]] and [[Microsoft Paint]], both of which are based on [[GDI+]] in Windows XP. UnfortunatelyHowever, the multi-page picture editing functions are gone with the Imaging software. However, it is possible to run any earlier Windows version on Windows XP/Vista/7.

Imaging for Windows was developed by [[Wang Laboratories|Wang]] (as in Windows 95/NT 4.0), was later absorbed by [[Kodak]]<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Gottesman|first=Ben Z.|date= November 4, 1997|title= Taming the paper tiger |magazine= PC Magazine |publisher=Ziff Davis|issn=0888-8507|volume=16|number=19|pages= 198}}</ref> (as ''Eastman Software'', as in Windows 98/2000), then becoming ''eiStream Inc.'', andlater isto nowbe ownedrenamed byto Global 360. VersionCurrently Imaging for Windows 4.0 wasis releasedavailable inthrough November[[Open 2008Text Corporation|OpenText]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opentext.com/g360imagingforwindows/Documentation/4.0/Getting%20Started.pdf|title=Imaging for Windows Getting Started Guide|publisher=[[Open Text Corporation|OpenText]]|date=2008|access-date=2015-03-12|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829193609/http://www.global360opentext.com/productsg360imagingforwindows/imagingDocumentation/4.0/Getting%20Started.pdf|archive-date=2014-08-29}}</ref> Professional GlobalEdition 360was Imagingsold as stand alone product with support for Windows]advanced features like OCR.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Cole|first=Barb|date= March 10, 1997|title= Users eye imaging ware for desktop |magazine= Computerworld |publisher=IDG|issn=0010-4841|volume=16|number=19|pages= 49, 52}}</ref>

Imaging for Windows supports creating, annotating, viewing, and printing [[TIFF]], [[BMP file format|BMP]], and [[Microsoft Fax]] ''AWD'' image documents. Users can also view and print [[JPEG]] and [[PCX]]/[[Bitmap graphics|DCX]] images.

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==References==

{{Reflist}}

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==Further reading==

*{{Cite magazine|last=Olsen|first=J. W.|date= May 14, 1996|title=First Looks, Imaging for Windows 95: The Future of Graphics |magazine= PC Magazine |publisher=Ziff Davis|issn=0888-8507|volume=15|number=9|pages=60 }}

*{{Cite magazine|last=Nadel|first=Brian|date= February 18, 1997|title=Second Looks, Tomorrow's Graphics Today|magazine= PC Magazine |publisher=Ziff Davis|issn=0888-8507|volume=16|number=4|pages=81 }}

*{{Cite magazine|last=Haskin|first=David|date= August 1998|title=First Looks, Paper Shredders|magazine= PC Magazine |publisher=Ziff Davis|issn=0888-8507|volume=17|number=14|pages=60 }}

==External links==

*[httphttps://supportjeffpar.microsoftgithub.comio/kbarchive/kb/140980140/Q140980/ Imaging for Windows 95 Version 1.0]

{{Microsoft Windows components}}

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