Jake, interestingly when I upgraded the printer drivers for my HP, there seems to be now no need for HP's software as the functionality is built-in to SL. I haven't tried the scanner yet, but I'm really interested in how this will work. One of my real concerns with ABBYY Xpress was the inability to address a scanner attached to the network. What I'm wondering is if these drivers in SL will now function. I'll have to report back after some tests with Read Iris since I have a copy here. On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Jake wrote:
> 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. > > -- 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.
