Sure, I have a list of suggestions, which won't be very long and in fact if they correct the issues, I'd gladdly purchase it and hell if they would commit to making the corrections in a not to distant version, I'd keep what I have and hey let me test it and provide feedback. On Aug 20, 2009, at 6:35 AM, a radix wrote:
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
