Hi, just to add to your contribution, eyepal, anyone tried the mac version, and with what resault? I'm in a hurry to get a solution, and am not sure I'm fond of buying two programs, also, which scanners work best these days. As I understand things things do shift from time to time depending on product availability. On 2011-01-28, at 12:45 PM, 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. > 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. > -- 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.
