Very interesting! where do you study law? I have had part of a course in common law and found it very difficult, the dutch law system is a lot different, relying a lot more on lawbooks and codified text then judgements. Anyway I scan all my books (except the lawbooks which are available online) but all my boosk i need for my courses using my hp 5590 scanner, i have to cut the books at the copyshop located at my faccculty, i thought about getting a real bookscanner but i need articles and stuff like that too on occasion and i have no room for two scanners. I usually take about a week before my course starts out for all the scanning so that i have it all done when the course starts because it is quite labour intensive work, i canonly scan about 30 pages at a time because I HATE paperjams, then they go through omnipage pro 16 and that sves it to a document. I havent tried anything on the mac yet because I am not sure if multiple pages at once are possible and it it would recognize text as well as omnipage does. I mean with omnipage there is NEVER a need to proofread text, sure the layout might not be 100 percent at times but there are no errors if the text source was clear. I am going to try readiris with and without vuescan and also finereader (although the full version is not available for the mac) but to be perfectly honest i dont have much hope. Out of curiosity what games do you plauy udner windows/ I too would really like to switch to the mac as much as possible, greetings, Anouk On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:52 PM, John J Herzog wrote:
> > Hi Anouk, > I, too, am a law student. Good luck with Iwork. It seems to resolve > many of my textedit issues. Some documents I have are one thousand > pages plus. Aside from initial sluggishness when interacting with the > document body in pages, voiceover remains snappy and responsive. > BTW, when you scan your documents in, do you use windows? If not, how > do you use your mac to accomplish this? If possible I'd really like to > use my VMware virtual copy of windows for games only. However I have > not found a reasonable way to do massive amounts of OCR with the mac. > > Thanks, > John > P.S. As for apple products, I think you always have to purchase the > CD. Every time I have made a purchase, with the exception of quicktime > pro, it has always included an installation CD or DVD. Then again, I > have always purchased my apple products from a retail store, so I > don't know what methods are available if you shop online. > > On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:49 AM, anouk radix wrote: > >> >> Hi John indeed that is exactly what I mean. Since I am a law students >> I have LOTS of those kinds of documents (a lot of which I scanned in >> myself btw). I am planning to get iworks in a few weeks, hopefully I >> can get a student discount. Btw a different question do i have to get >> apple stuff on cd, cant you just download it from their site? >> Greetings, Anouk, >> On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:17 PM, John J Herzog wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> I have noticed the same behavior you mentioned. It normally occurs >>> on >>> long documents, and textedit does in deed say busy after arrowing >>> down >>> each line. It's quite frustrating, but if you have Iwork, it seems >>> to >>> do a better job. >>> Note: When I say long documents, I am referring to those that are >>> several hundred pages or more in length. >>> >>> >>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:05 AM, James & Nash wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Could it dpend on the length of the document? This should not be >>>> the >>>> case >>>> but I have known it happen in Microsoft Office >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "anouk radix" <anou...@home.nl> >>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:50 PM >>>> Subject: problems reading a document in textedit >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hello everyone, i tried again today to take my macbook pro with me >>>>> to >>>>> school today but it did not go as well as the first two times. I >>>>> had >>>>> to consult a lawbook (if htats the right word) and every time i >>>>> went >>>>> down a line i got messages like textedit busy or busy or textedit >>>>> ready which made it nearly impossible to read through the >>>>> document. >>>>> This happened with down arrow but also vo-down. I am going to see >>>>> if I >>>>> have the spelling turned off and if changing the format will do >>>>> anything. The computer shoudl not have been much taxdd, i mean it >>>>> has >>>>> 3 ghz 4gig of ram and textedit was the only application running. >>>>> This >>>>> was very frustrating and annoying. >>>>> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
