Greetings Ann and others, Okay, so I gather the reason to get both VUEScan and FineReader is that the former will run the scanner and the latter provides a much better OCR result. Does finereader resolve the orientation? There are eight ways to put a page on the scanner and only one is correct. One would not need to run through all four iterations for the blank side, but for many items which are not always printed lengthwise, it could take as many as four scans to get it right. Mean time, when the orientation is not correct, it takes much longer to recognize, and you end up with a garbage result.
So I will probably download VUEScan and see for myself but thought I'd ask here, because if ABBYY cannot determine orientation, I will stick with K1000 for the foreseeable future. Best regards. Geoff all four On Jan 28, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Erik, > > I can get ABBYY FineReader to recognise my Canon Lide 700F portable USB > scanner, but it's a bit fiddly. I find it much easier and more effective to > use VueScan to do the scanning and FineReader to do the OCR. > > VueScan produces beautiful images and FineReader does an almost perfect job > with OCR. > > I set VueScan to produce TIFF files and set TIFF files to always open with > ABBYY FineReader. > > In this way, I launch VueScan, scan as many pages as I need, then FineReader > is launched automatically. I've set a shortcut for "Convert to Text > Document", so all I then have to do is enter the file name and where to put > it. > > It all sounds much more complicated than it really is. > > I've demonstrated this scanning procedure to very sceptical Windows users and > they were impressed by its quality and efficiency. > > I'll send you my user guide off list so you can see for yourself. > > cheers, > Anne > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.