Hi Anne, Thanks for all this info. I'm saving your message in the event I do decide to give Vuescan/ReadIris a shot some time down the road.
I don't know if you'll know the answer, but do you know what the deal is with compatibility with older Twain scanners? My scanner dates back to about 2001, and uses a twain driver. It cost about $1500 at time of purchase, and since it works perfectly still, I don't want to replace it. Thanks, Donna On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Donna, > > On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: >> >> So, if ReadIris 12 is a disaster, can one still get an older version? > Not from the Iris people, but I think it's still available from > Amazon and probably other places, too. Also, buying from anyone > other than Irislink is usually cheaper. The version to get is > Readiris 11. > >> Also, if one does get an earlier version, is there any way to >> initiate a scan that is slightly less complicated than the one >> Krister seems to use? > That's why I use VueScan to do the scanning and Readiris for the OCR. > I launch VueScan, set it to either single- or multi-page scanning. > For the first page, I press Command-I to do a preview. This lets > VueScan calibrate itself. > I then press Command-N to scan a page. The first time you do this > you have to click OK on a dialogue box which reminds you to press > Command-G after the last page is scanned. > Command-G then launches Readiris where I press Command-R and it > performs the OCR. > When this is complete, the document opens automatically in TextEdit, > and I can save it where I like and with the name I like, or discard > it. > It takes a bit of configuring to have things work like this, but > once it's done, you can forget about it. > I'm talking about Readiris 11 here, Readiris 12 doesn't have a short- > cut for "Perform OCR". I've already pointed this out to them. There > are other bugs, too. > > I wrote a setup and user guide for these two applications, and you > can find them either on the Lioncourt site, or on: > www.icanworkthisthing.com > > I think I forgot to mention in the setup guide that I have all TIFF > files set to open with Readiris. This is essential to make the pass- > off between VueScan and Readiris work properly. > > I chose TIFF files because I have photos as JPEGs. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
