I'm using my mac full time. I'm running fusion and use nvda on that with win xp. I'm using k 1000 with that, and think you can run open book as well. As an alternative, there is now docuscan plus from the serotek folks. I can't tell you how good it is, though, since every time I've personally tried to run it it crashes. It's apparently something to do with my mac timing out or something like that(which really doesn't make sense to me), but to try it you can get a trial version and try it for yourself and see how you like it. I did get the pdf recognition to work, and it did that part pretty well. The k1000 works really, really well, though, and the windows runs better on my mac then it did natively, weirdly enough.
Oh, for what it's worth, my mac happens to be the maxed out i 5 with 8 g of ram, and I gave my windows a gig of ram with fusion. hth, Caitlyn On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Brian Miller wrote: > What about scanning software? I would love to go full time with my MAC, > but I don't know how well my Open Book software would run on the MAC using > Bootcamp or fusion or whatever. > > What do others do? I scan too many books to just give this up. > > Brian Miller > > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hunt > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:58 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: using a mac full time? > > Hello everyone. I do all of my work on the Mac. I use the Microsoft > applications and other windows apps with VM Fusion. Actually, windows works > better on my Mac than it does on any PC I use. I can't see wasting real > estate for a desktop or a laptop system that runs windows when my mac can do > both. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ShamelessFanGirl > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:20 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: using a mac full time? > > Same here. I've had my Mac for just over two months, and haven't touched my > Windows machine since it arrived. I think in my case, the transition was > made easier by way of using the Apple wireless keyboard, and other bluetooth > keyboards with my iPhone, along with the phone proper, and the trackpad > commander. I've pondered long and hard about whether or not to add Windows > to the mix, and at this point, there simply is no need. Everything on the > Mac just works, and the overall experience has been innovative, and fun. It > serves my needs daily with everything from audio work, to twitter, Skype, > mail, word processing, and web browsing. The only weak area thus far would > be complex word processing, but I've yet to run into, or throw something at > VO that it doesn't handle beautifully. > > End rant, however, while I'm sure there are glitches, I have yet to > encounter them, granted I'm far from a seasoned user. :) > > hth, and have fun > > > Foursquare: IndigoCellist > > Twitter: @IndigoCellist > > Skype: shameless_FanGirl > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am using my Mac full time and have done so ever since i got it about >> 2 > and a half years ago. I have Vmware fusion on the machine, but the only > thing i use windows for today is websites that have captchas and audio > games, nothing more. >> /Krister >> >> 11 jul 2011 kl. 16.20 skrev james walton: >> >>> hello, >>> >>> I have been doing some thinking, and was wondering if any one on this > list, has gone completely to there mac computer and been able to trust there > boot camp or VM fusion to do all of there tasks? and not need an actual > windows PC to do what they need to do? >>> thanks >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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