Hello, will you at least be telling them about what you WOULD like in it? I mean it may help for future versions. Greetings, Anouk, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <s.how...@verizon.net> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:57 AM Subject: Re: finereader for the mac (ocr)
> > Yeah, I think they really need to do some more work on this program > and I'll be returning it since if I can't use it in the way I wish, > then it does not meet my needs. > On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: > >> >> I too have looked at this program. It has a number of issues: >> >> Unlabelled buttons, our old friend the unlabelled button! What is so >> hard about filling out the accessibility field in interface builder, I >> would like to know, that keeps developers from doing this? I was able >> to open the interface files and add the missing labels and I could >> make a patch file to permit other to add these to their copies but I >> am unsure of the legality of such an action. >> >> Much more serious is the fact that the program seems unable to detect >> pages placed in the scanner upside down, a common issue with blind >> users and which would limit it usefulness. >> >> Finally there seems to be no option that I have found to have the >> scanners work in any kind of continues mode for the scanning of a book >> for example. >> >> On the whole the interface is accessible however and when it does do >> OCR the results is very accurate. >> >> >> Gregory Kearney >> Manager - Accessible Media >> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >> 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 >> Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia >> >> Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 >> Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) >> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 >> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) >> Email: gkear...@gmail.com >> >> On 20/08/2009, at 3:27 AM, a radix wrote: >> >>> Hello, I was doing some searching about this and I noticed on the >>> abby site that there IS a finereader version for the mac BUT >>> apparently its an express version (so I suppose its stripped) I will >>> contact abby about it however because I have heard good things about >>> finereader, here is the link: >>> Pagina ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac - 1-2-3 Paper Free >>> http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/ >>> >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> >>>> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
