Stephanie: Let me simplify this for you: If you look up vuescan, on Google it will come up with the website that discusses it's ups, downs and backwards and forwards.:) It also tells which scanners are supported, and a lot of them are. Download Vuescan as a trial, and install it. When you open it, there are six tabs for selecting various settings. You'll find the scanner under the input tab, I'd bet on it.:) I'm still learning how to work with these. But, I think Vuescan is far better at linking up with various scanners. It worked with both my Canon and my hp, (with the hp taking a bit longer to do a scan.) It might then be easier to determine whether in fact you need Abbyy for what you want to accomplish. HTH Carolyn H On Jan 28, 2011, at 12:42 PM, stephanie mitchell wrote:
> okay so i might need 2 programmes. before i do that though, ho) d i > find my sca'nner and get it working? my scanner isn't even listed 9 > abbyy. > > On 1/29/11, Kaare Dehard <kaare.deh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. >> >> > > -- > 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.
