Hello Geoff, ABBYY FineReader detects orientation. It also gets pages in the right order when you scan a double-page at a time which is what I do when scanning books.
VueScan doesn't detect orientation but it will do OCR, though not very well. Cheers, Anne On 28 Jan 2011, at 18:45, Geoff Waaler wrote: > 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. -- 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.
