Donna, I think there are some very good options on the Mac and you don't need three different packages. Everyone has their own way of doing things and I think ABBYY FineReader Express is a real option if they make some tweaks that I'd like to see and mostly working with my scanner, which is a network appliance. THe software itself seem to work just fine. I think where people encounter problems and I'm sure this affects windows users as well, is the bundled software a lot of scanners come with. Seems a lot of scanners have software that talks directly to the twain driver or I guess pretty much must be used directly to perform the scan, which then the results are passed on to the software such as ABBYY etc. I know one person that uses another app I can't think of and I'm sure there is a reason and I think it had something to do with by-passing the software of the scanner. SOme developers of scanner drivers do allow third-party apps to talk directly to the twain driver, but this is out of my area of knowledge, but I really think this is where people have the most difficulty. Read Iris is another solution that has worked well and they are also apparently coming out with a new version and it will be interesting to see how that works as well.
On Sep 2, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi Terrence, > > I have been watching posts on the list re the various Mac options, > and I came to the conclusion that the best option for me was to keep > my Windows PC set up for scanning purposes. I'd love to see a > really good scanning/ocr option for the Mac--one that doesn't > involve three different apps--but from what I can tell, it just > isn't there yet. > > HTH, > Donna > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terrence <terre...@terrencevak.net> > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 2:07 PM > To: MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Need Advice: OCR > > > Not sure if my other message went through, so I'm posting it again; > please forgive any repeats. > After spending $249 on Premier Assistive Technology's literacy package > because of the scan-and-read functionality, I have decided the thing's > not all it's cracked up to be, since it opened in an X11 window and > didn't work at all with VO. So now I'm doing what I think I should > have done in the first place instead of listening to the general AT > specialist who spoke on the Mac at our local AT conference; I'm on my > knees to the true experts...fellow users. What do you all all use for > OCR tochnology that *works*? I know there's been a lot of discussion > about OCR experimenting lately, but I need something that's going to > work with a minimum of finagling so I can spend my time *READING* the > documents I scan rather than fighting with the software. True I like > putzing, but for my day-to-day stuff I'd really prefer not to have to > do that more than necessary. > > Thanks, > Terrence > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
