Hi Anouk I am currently a law student at the University of Michigan law school in the US. My classes also heavily rely on books and course packs. I'm currently using Kurzweil 1000 under fusion to handle all my scanning needs. My scanner, which has both an ADF and flatbed works with twain sane, which is an open source project that emulates many scanner drivers for the macintosh. However, I was unable to get vuescan to work with twain-sane, and when I called readiris technical support, they expressed their doubts that the product would work. Twain sane is an emulator, not an official twain driver, so the iris folks said it most likely would not work. That's a shame, as apparently readiris can handle multiple pages put into an ADF simultaneously. Has anybody gotten Vuescan to work with twain sane? How about ReadIris? I am willing to pay for either program, but want to make sure it all works first. As for games, I want to talk about that, but think it would be off topic here since they're all windows. Please email me off list and I'd be happy to tell you which ones are awesome. On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:55 PM, anouk radix wrote:
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
