Chris, I wouldn't mind that either! *smile* Has anyone seen the specifications for the camera in iPhone 4? Specifically, is the flash LED or xenon based?
Cheers, Dónal -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: 18 June 2010 17:06 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Abbyy fine reader for Mac Maybe we are all thinking a bit too old school. Two weeks ago Humanware demonstrated document readers to me which used a camera instead. The camera was portable as it was on a fold up tripod type thing. The software was on a Windows machine which drove the camera, words were also displayed on screen as the document was read out. The camera took a picture of the document and a second or so later the document was read out to me. You could take pictures of multiple pages too. tHe speech quality was amazing, even better then Alex I have to be honest. I thought hmmmm I would buy this if I could use it on my Mac too. I wish Humanware would develop software for the Mac to drive hardware like this. I decided on the iPal Solo so I did not have to use a windows machine to read documents, as the iPal solo works completely without a computer. Who knows in about 2 years time we will all probably be reading printed material via the camera on the iPhone 6 or whatever. I can just picture a nifty stand you slide your iPhone or iPod Touch into to neatly take a picture of the document below. I want it now!!! On 18 Jun 2010, at 16:43, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi allison, > While I have not used abbyy for the Mac, based on what I've heard people say, no, it is nowhere near like K1000, which I have used for probably a decade. Yes, you can hook up a usb scanner, and if you get one that FR recognized, such as the hp 8300 pro or epson 200 or 300, I forget the full model designation, you can apparently scan directly without the need for a second app to do the scanning part and then transferring the file to abby for processing. But, as I understand it, you cannot scan and read simultaneously; you can't scan multiple pages into the same file. You can't scan and immediately read to check out setting accuracy. You have to let abbyy save the page to a file and then read it there. Lots more steps. Maybe ok for the occasional page. but totally not so for serious scanning. If my understanding of the limitation of fr express is incorrect, I hope somebody will correct me. I asked a guy I know who uses FR with the hp8300 and who has used k1000 if fr express could do the things I outlined above and he flatly said no. to be sure, there is a huge cost difference. But having an excellent efficient scanning solution is one reason I have no intention of giving up Windows for now. Using two applications where one will do, having to save to a file prior to reading and not being able have multiple pages in the same file, have it open and reading while I'm scanning, or even scanning one thing and reading another are all reasons why I can't see dumping windows for scanning/ocr purposes. If abbyy would come out with a full version of fine reader, that might be a different story. > > mary > > -- > 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. -- 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.
