Hello Lynn, You've come up against the problem of the inaccessibility of ScanGear. Here is Krister Ekstrom's explanation of how he deals with it. When i'm in the scanning dialog i find the text that says "perform scan" and when i'm there with the voice cursor, i route the mouse there vo-cmd-f5 and then i grab the physical mouse and move it slowly down until you hear "entering new window" at this point, click the physical mouse button and the scanner starts. Works for me every time.
I, on the other hand, use VueScan which avoids the need to interact directly with ScanGear. However, VueScan has to be paid for. I think it costs $39 for 1 year, or $79 for lifetime support and all updates. Cheers, Anne On Dec 2, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Lynn Schneider wrote: > I purchased AbyyFine yesterday. It does a great job converting PDF documents > to text, but I've been having a problem when I try to do OCR from a scanned > document. I tell the program that I want it to get the document from my > scanner, and then I think it is the Twain driver window comes up. It says > Scan Gear and there are some pretty inaccessible controls that let you do > certain things, but then I can't find the button to actually scan. My > scanner is a Cannon MX 860 series scanner. I know the printer works, but I > have never scanned with it before. I'm not getting any error messages > spoken, but once this Twain window comes up, I can't close it or get back to > AbyyFine. I'm thinking the scanner bed might be locked, although I have no > idea how to unlock it? What I'm really hoping is that I can somehow get this > document to scan so that it can be processed for OCR. Anything that might > point me in the right direction here would be most appreciated. Is it > possible that I might have to scan with another program? Thanks in advance > for any suggestions. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
