Donna,
If you can deal with recognition over the internet I really would choose
DocuScan Plus over your other choices. Your options are many more with
DocuScan Plus, and if you want to use Braille it is definately there with
VoiceOver. And, it works really well with VoiceOver. I have it and Eye-Pal
both on my MacBook Pro, and I always opt for DocuScan Plus because you
really have a lot more flexability with it. And, once the document is
recognized you can go to Document Management and save the document on your
computer and delete it from the cloud. You can also save Braille files and
Daisy files from your scanned documents with DocuScan Plus. I turned the
PDF of the Olympus DM4 digital recorder into a Daisy book with DocuScan Plus
and it did a really nice job.
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From: "Donna Goodin" <goodi...@msu.edu>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Abisee?
Hi Carolyn,
I'll keep you posted. Honestly, I'm kind of on the fence. I can't decide
whether to shell out the $$ for EyePal, or deal with the headaches of ABBYY.
I'd like ABBYY a lot better if I didn't need one app to scan and another to
recognize. My other alternative is to just upgrade my copy of Kurzweil on
my PC. Not crazy about that option either, but it is probably the easiest
and most reliable of the three options.
Take care,
Donna
On Jun 6, 2011, at 1:01 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
Hi Donna:
I don't have Abbyy, and messed up my rial period of it. But, people have
had good luck pairing it with iPhoto or vuescan. Vuescan works with more
scanners, but I never got really comfortable with it's setup.
I'll be interested to see what works well for you.
Carolyn
On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hi,
thanks for sharing your thoughts. This is really the only area where I
have to say that the Mac is truly lacking. I'm also thinking about
giving ABBYY Fine Reader a shot, but it sounds like it's awfully fiddly.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Hai Nguyen Ly wrote:
Hello Donna,
I am a user of DocuScanPlus and I have also used EyePal for Mac with
varying amounts of success. Unfortunately, I can't say that I enjoy
using either solution since they both have tremendous drawbacks.
Although DocuScanPlus has some nice features, it requires an internet
connection to really be usable. EyePal for Mac isn't really a Mac
application and doesn't behave like one. Although it does a good job of
processing print text, the UI seemsreally clunky and inefficient since
ABISee is using Wine to create a Windows like environment to run the
application. Overall, I've found the EyePal application to be more of a
memory hog and less stable than what I would expect from such a high
priced solution.
Just my thoughts
On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:24 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi Donna,
as you are a braille user, Eyepal may not be the best option for you
right now. Although you can work around it, the loss of braille has
crippled the product considerably. When I wrote that it wasn't ready
for primetime, I was using old hardware and software. I'm more than
happy to recommend the current offering for what it is and as far as it
goes.
I have an Eyepal here and I like it much better than k1000 on a vm for
pure convenience. It does see a page and recognize it extrordinarily
well. It looks nice on a desktop. It's fantastic for scanning large
amounts of material at once.
Lac of direct braille support, terrible key assignments, abominable
speech, and no voiceover integration are inconveniences I've decided
are worth putting up with until a genuine mac software emerges which
they assure me will happen at some point. Hopefully soon, since
Docuscan has shown up as a possible better alternative considering the
mac Integration.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
User support consultant,
Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf,
1-888-255-5194
http://www.erik-burggraaf.com
On 2011-06-06, at 9:42 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hi all,
I have to make a decision about what I'm going to do to upgrade my
scanning setup. As I recall, when last discussed, the consensus
seemed to be that Abisee wasn't quite ready for prime-time. Just
wondering if anyone is using it, and if they are happy with the
product?
Thanks in advance for any info.
Best,
Donna
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