Hi All, Obviously, I misunderstood an e-mail message I received in reply to my initial inquiry concerning using my Brother “All-In-One” printer. I mistakenly interpreted that answer to suggest that Image Capture could create an image file from a printed document and then convert it to another, accessible format (i.e., text, Word, HTML, etc.). Apparently I was considerably mistaken.
Not having an OCR application (I don’t believe) on my Mac, I e-mailed the resulting image as an attachment to myself. Then using my iPhone’s mail app, I was able to open that image file and deploy the image explorer feature on the iPhone to “read” the document. Admittedly, this is an awful lot of “Monkey Business” when I consider that installing an OCR app on my Mac would streamline the process. I will be purchasing ABBY for my Mac to make this process much more efficient. Thanks Tim! * * * * * * * * * * * * - Bill from Ino, Wisconsin - "In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful," - "but the gratefulness that makes us happy." - Albert Clarke > On Jun 15, 2022, at 4:14 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > You need an app like ABBYY Fine Reader or some other OCR capable app to > convert a scanned document to text. Using Image Capture will scan and print > it nicely, but the translation into text requires more. > > Later… > > > Tim Kilburn > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/DCC2FB31-FFFA-4FDE-8356-B28C71D42005%40gmail.com.
