Even today in the digital era there are still great dictionaries available only on paper. You can scan them to the computer and save in some image format such as jpeg or png.
In CafeTran, not only is it possible to open scanned images but also search for their pages much more rapidly than manual browsing of paper books.
Creation of image resources
Scan your paper resource to the computer.
Save in a directory your scanned pages each under a unique name in the jpeg, gif or png image format. The name of an image file might be the first entry on the page.
Access to image resources
Select Library | New resource.
Select Image.
Fill in the fields in the following way:
Path:
Set the complete path to one image file or a directory containing all saved image files.
Zoom:
You can set the default size of images opened in CafeTran. For example, if you set zoom to 10, the size of the images will be increased by 10 percent. Setting the zoom value with a minus sign, for example -10, will decrease all the images by 10 percent. The default value is 0.
Description:
Here you can type any short information about the resource.
Press OK button and save the image configuration file under some name in the Images directory. You can also make subdirectories of the parent directories and save the file there organizing your images in a tree-like structure.
Opening and searching images
Select Library | Images | Your image. In the tabbed view a new window appears.
Now you can browse through images by clicking the Back and Forward buttons in the toolbar.
You can decrease and increase the size of images by clicking the Zoom+ and Zoom- buttons in the toolbar.
Invert the colors of the image by choosing the Invert colors in the window context menu which pops up if you click the window with the right button of the mouse.
You can search for image files by typing a name in the Search field and then pressing Enter key or clicking the Search button. The image will appear in the window.
If the file with this name does not exist the alphabetically closest file is loaded. Press the Back/Forward buttons in the main toolbar to go to the next or previous image.
Editing the configuration file
Select the image window.
Choose Library | Edit resource info from the menu.
