Imagine is a lightweight, fast and easy to use image viewer with basic graphics and animation edit features. Also includes screen capture, thumbnail browser, slideshow and metadata disclosure. Conversion tools include batch format change to dozens of formats and lossless JPEG changes (rotate and flip).
Additional formats support available through plugins.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
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Similar/alternative apps: | IrfanView |
What's new? | See: https://www.nyam.pe.kr/dev/imagine/whatsnew/ |
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filobus
on 2023-09-25 12:32
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On site download link doesn't work (anyway, as it is on github, I found that link: https://github.com/nyam1003/imagine) |
XnView is a feature-rich, customizable media viewer that supports more than 400 formats. Includes batch image converter/renamer as well as basic transformations (rotate, filters, effects, colors, multi-page etc.). Various viewing settings include tabbed interface, fullscreen, slideshow, web page, contact sheet, image compare and filmstrip layout. Includes scanner support, screen capture, Photoshop's 8bf plugins, image search, histogram, metadata viewer, automatic crop (deletes background), watermark, flash export and more. It can also store thumbnails to a temp folder rather than each image folder accessed, which is handy for portable use.
Alternatively, XnView Portable is pre-configured and automatically supports PDF interpreter/rendering engine Ghostscript Portable.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use |
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Similar/alternative apps: | IrfanView, Imagine, FastStone Image Viewer |
What's new? | See: https://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewforum.php?f=35 |
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PapaiMark
on 2020-05-18 22:38
I use it since W98. Very easy copy/paste/crop/resize/scan/print/sharpness and many other things.
JudyGarland
on 2020-10-22 05:38
XnView is not Windows XP compatible anymore. In order to make it work with XP, replace libwebp.dll (plugin folder) with with webp.dll (xnview.com/download/plugins/webp.zip).
PAFuser
on 2022-08-17 12:21
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XNView MP 1.01 32 + 64 bit available on Portable Apps (NEW on 8/16/22 - https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/xnview-mp-portable). |
PeaZip is a feature-rich file archiver with broad support for 200+ file types. The file manager interface includes a hash tool, file wipe, file associations, file splitter, themes, estimated compression level, system benchmark, image crop/rename and much more.
Formats supported include most mainstream archive formats, including ZIP, 7Z, ACE, BZIP2, CAB, GZIP, TAR, UPX, ZIPX, as well as it's own PEA format. Can extact but not create MSI and RAR files.
Note that tools setup through the Task Scheduler are not portable.
Cross platform with clients for Mac, Linux, and BSD, as well as a 64-bit version is available. Alternatively, PeaZip Portable portablizes bookmarks and includes both 32 and 64-bit versions, automatically using the proper one on each PC.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU LGPL |
How to extract: | Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch peazip.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | 7-Zip, IZArc, Bandizip |
What's new? | See: https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html |
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AndTheWolf
on 2014-11-16 17:37
Download link (http://www.peazip.org/peazip-portable.html) raises a 404 "not found" error. Link instead just to http://www.peazip.org/ or to http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip-portable.html.
Happy.Camper2
on 2014-12-24 02:22
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My experience with PeaZip is to go to: |
FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer and converter that supports resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks, lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and more. It also includes a built-in slideshow with 60+ transitional effects. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, TGA and several Camera RAWs.
The program includes metadata (EXIF) tools including the ability to pull up a map of where a given picture was taken by looking at GPS data.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use |
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Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FSViewer.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language and help files. |
Similar/alternative apps: | IrfanView, XnView, Imagine |
What's new? | See: [https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm#History |
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g3ose
on 2019-04-17 18:14
it is version 7.0 right now, is portable and free
gcb43
on 2022-04-04 12:55
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I fully agree with Miklo, having used FastStone for several years, I really like it: does everything I want almost intuitively.I still use version 6.4 . Tried to use the last version 7.6 but reversed to the previous one because in the last release there is a bug in the Multi-Page File Builder to created an Animated GIF (Alt+M):. the resulting GIF file shows only the first 2 loaded images then stops. |
IrfanView is a viewer for a wide variety of image, audio and video formats. The program includes batch processing, creation of panoramic images, edition of multi-page TIFF files, lossless JPEG rotate/crop and effects such as sharpen and blur. Other tools such as screen capture, scanner, slideshow, plugin support and ability to capture icons from EXE or DLL.
Alternatively, IrfanView Portable is also available and updates drive letters and handles registry keys.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use (the installer is adware) |
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Similar/alternative apps: | XnView, Imagine, FastStone Image Viewer |
What's new? | See: https://www.irfanview.com/main_history.htm |
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Cornflower
on 2023-12-10 08:43
Also note that virtually every new release updates some plugins, and version 4.65 is no exception. Most users may want to go to https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm and download the 32- or 64-bit package, and dump them into the Irfanview Plugins subdirectory.
Cornflower
on 2024-04-05 13:40
I notice in 4.67 that the OCR plugin is updated. It suggests using the Tesseract OCR, which I suspect is not portable. When I test it I will be looking to see if it can be made portable, and if it works with 32-bit Irfanview (there are a number of limitations with the 64-bit Irfanview so I am staying there).
M1P0
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Starting from ver. 4.67.2, the new OCR plugin can read QR Codes and Barcodes by itself, without any Tesseract. |
FocusOn Image Viewer lets you view, organize, and make changes to images without modifying the original. The program includes edition tools like color, brightness, rotation, frames, and various filters. Thumbnail views, broad image format support, easy sharing, and metadata tools are also available. Batch operations are available for modifying or renaming any number of files, as well as automatic archiving and image management.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Imagine, FastStone Image Viewer, IrfanView, XnView |
What's new? | https://pintosoft.com/en/post/foni1.31_en |
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Andrew Lee
on 2023-08-20 02:36
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Regarding the previous few comments about v1.29, I have responded in the forum: https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=105408#p105408 |
Softi FreeOCR is an image-to-text program using the Tesseract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. It supports multi-page TIFF images and import of documents via TWAIN scanners. Scanned text can be saved as ASCII text files.
Note: Images must have high detail (around 300 dpi) to recognize text reliably. Additionally, the application has been discontinued and website taken offline, so we have made it available for direct download.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
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Similar/alternative apps: | PDF XChange Viewer (with OCR plugin) |
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amcclendon
on 2011-09-08 13:14
didn't work. All it did was output some gibberish.
webfork
on 2011-09-08 20:03
amcclendon: if you give it even somewhat small text, it will choke. I usually have to give it stuff scanned at 200 DPI (most pages taking up about 2 megs).
coolayman
on 2015-07-28 00:53
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I like it as it works with my scanner and OCR is quick. For more languages, download the language packs for tesseract 2.00 (dated Jul 2007) at this link: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list?num=100&start=100 |
ImgSearch lets you search and delete similar images across multiple folders. The program even allows checking for similarity from previous image analysis. Files are removed to the Recycle Bin and can be restored in case of a mistake.
Supports analysis of JPG, GIF, BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, PNG, PCX image formats.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ImgSearch.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | AntiDupl.NET |
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__philippe
on 2016-03-01 16:35
Worthy alternative to ImgSearch (which has not been updated since March 2007) :
spicydog
on 2018-01-24 02:19
Download link (and apparently website) seem to be broken.
webfork
on 2018-01-24 20:37
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@spicydog: thanks for that -- billon pointed it to archive.org (thanks billon) |
GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed, printed and converted.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: |
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What's new? |
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Fergus
on 2010-09-29 13:45
I've done this, but I still get the "Register Now" nag. Pressing clears the nag, but it's awfully irritating. Is there a way of disabling it?
Fergus
on 2010-09-29 19:46
OK managed to get a register code; use it once and hey presto away you go. BUT the code is written o a local gsview.ini which also incorporates named drive letters. Move your USB stick to another host machine where it will very likely be named differently and gsview.ini is suddenly broken -- you have to supply the reg code again. Very VERY annoying; not true portable freeware, at all ...
Ascend4nt
on 2012-01-24 22:37
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Setup is a bit more tricky then running a self-extracting executable, and dumping Ghostscript in the same folder. Here's what I had to do: |
Snapshoter is a small productivity tool that includes image and video capture program, clipboard manager, image composer, and a post-it note functions. The program can also make image edits with layers, scale, rotate, borders, contrast, add transparency, and use text or arrows. It can also add watermarks or create collages.
Supports skins, Dropbox, and saves to JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF or ILBM image formats.
Cross-platform with support for Mac, AmigaO/AROS, and MorphOS.
Note: Tooltips are visible at the bottom of the window when hovering over an item in the interface.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the RAR package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice. Launch snapshoter.exe. |
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julius
on 2011-05-13 22:12
for me is great, but PNG or BMP support will be nice
magyar
on 2011-05-24 23:13
very easy intuitive fast and clear program, i autoboot it everytime
allclownsareevil
on 2011-08-16 16:12
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Really glad I tried this, usually I use fascapture, but this has some great features over it. Like others have said an ability to be able to save captures as pdf would be nice, but hardly essential. There are other programs on here to convert images to pdf. |