Hi Ann, I would love to see the tutorial. I've looked at some other documentation prepared by others on this list, and while it worked out for them, it doesn't meet the needs of my clients. An off the shelf solution that really works would be a huge asset.
Thanks and have a relaxing weekend, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-01-28, 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.
