right, I need something quick,not exactly clean but reliable when running. Now thinking vuescan/abby combo and some decent scanner, any recommendations for nice workable rugged scanners that don't have a printer or fax or a million other things that they're part of?
Thanks. On 2011-01-29, at 2:47 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, The EyePal is a band-aid solution at this point, a very platinum > band-aid if I may say so. I'm recommending it to clients because it's easy > and it works and they won't have to pick up the tab for most of it. My > clients are for the most part either elderly and fearful or studentish and in > need of something quick and effective. The EyePal serves in both regards. > If it had true mac software I'd have no reservations. As it is, it's fast, > portable, effective, nice-looking on a desk, easy to use and easy to teach. > And the price is slowly coming down. Doubtful it will ever be as cheep as an > off the shelf product, but I've never seen an off the shelf product do what > EyePal does. Some one prove it to me. I'd love to see it, and I'll be right > there on the bandwagon as soon as it happens, but til then it's the eyepal. > > Best, > > 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 1:06 PM, Kaare Dehard 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. 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