Hi Cathyk,
I looked at this once in an earlier version, and it had some
accessibility issues. The buttons came up as "radio button 1", etc.
but if you used VO-H you got the labels. I was interested in this
because before ABBYY Fine Reader Express OCR came out for the Mac, you
could get a special bundled version of ABBYY Fine Reader with the
Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner, and DevonThink built a workflow with this
scanner. The enhanced OCR is the ability to create PDFs with
searchable keywords, so you could search in Spotlight, for example,
and find the scanned documents. It takes longer to run a scan with
the searchable PDF keyword conversion. This feature was built into
the Fujitsu ScanSnap software options, but the Devonthink Pro Office
workflow takes advantage of that feature if you used that scanner in
the context of their software. It's been quite a while since I tried
this (since this predates the general ABBYY Fine Reader release for
the Mac -- over a year and a half ago at least). I was curious about
the Fujitsu ScanSnap, since a colleague had this at the time. My
guess is that there would be some issues, but they may have improved
things since then. I did think that the workflow was specific to the
ScanSnap line of scanners, which separately featured the searchable
PDF creation option. I don't really know more about this. DevonThink
has downloadable trials, and they sometimes come as part of bundled
software promotions. However, only the Pro version has the
integration with the tagged PDF scans, I think. I only looked at this
briefly, and because I could try out a colleague's ScanSnap back then.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 1, 2010, at 08:57, cathyk wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone have experience with the note-taking and organizing
program "Devonthink"? The Professional Office version claims enhanced
OCR. But searching the site, I didn't find anything that demonstrated
a real commitment to access, so I thought I'd ask the list.
Thanks much,
cathyk
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