Hi I don't use VueScan for the OCR, but rather to perform the scanning function as it seems most scanner drivers are inaccessible and VueScan has the ability to bypass them. What I've done, and it's not too hard, is to have VueScan feed the scanned image into FineReader Express. While actually using two programs, it makes it act like one program as I press the button on my scanner, VueScan scans the page and it is immediately pulled into my current Finereader Express job. I don't know why any of the OCR programs on the Mac don't bypass the scanner window themselves, sheer laziness is my guess. This is something that the TWAIN API supports on both platforms and is relatively easy to implement, so there's no real excuse for it. In short, to set this up, install and set up VueScan the way you want it. Go to the Output tab and make sure jpeg is checked and no other image formats. Jpeg seems to give the best results with Finereader. Now, go to the prefs tab and select "default" under external viewer and make sure the checkbox to enable the viewer is checked. If you like, also set up the scanner buttons scan if your scanner has them, typically the scan button is button 1 so set buton 1 action to scan. Scan an image with this setup, it will load into preview first. We need an image on the hard drive though to change the default program for image files. Close preview and Vuescan both, then navigate to the jpeg in your Pictures folder that was just produced, typically called Scan-20091202-0001.jpeg or similar. Press command-i for get info, and under "open with" choose finereader express from the pop-up menu. Next, press the "change all" button and confirm the action. Now, launch VueScan and Finereader both. If you set it up properly, VueScan's image once scanned will immediately appear in your Finereader Express pages table once the scanning is done. Scan as many pages like that as you want then recognize them. It's a bit of a pain to set up but you only have to set it up once. Also note that Finereader must be started before scanning if you want this to work. hth
On Dec 2, 4:13 am, "James & Nash" <james.austin1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 > > athttp://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.
