Hi Lynn, I think others on here also use VueScan to do the actual OCR. I am looking for scanning packages myself, so I'm very interested in this thread. I also have a Cannon scanner. You also mentioned that your scanner may be locked? I don't know if this will help, but on the bottom of the scanner, there is usually a button that will unlock it, but I don't know if this is what you mean.
TC James On 2 Dec 2009, at 10:55, 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.
