Congratulations on getting the Pearl, but I would suggest to you that you
not do away with your scanner completely. You will find times when a thick
book or so;mething that you cannot keep flat without applying pressure is
going to do better on a scanner. The Pearl has a fixed focus, meaning that
if the document or book is to o thick it will be somewhat out of focus, and
thus you will not get a good picture for recognition. Your choices then are
to find something about the same thickness to place the camera on in order
to get the text back in focus or place the document on a flatbed scanner to
scan the document.
The Hovercam with the DocuScan Plus works very nicely on the Mac once you
get familiar with how to adjust the camera to just the right height to get
the best picture. DocuScan Plus may not do everything that OpenBook does,
but it does a lot and has many great features for $299, and once you
purchase it you can use it both for Windows and Apple.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Erichsen" <serich...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 5:41 PM
Subject: RE: A Question Regarding OCR
Hi Mark,
The Pearl will only work with OpenBOok 9.0 and will only work under
windows.
The two options that work with the Mac are the hoverCam with DocuScan Plus
from Serotek and the EyePal.
Personally I like the Pearl and OpenBOok as the accuracy is fantastic from
everything I've scanned.
Cheers.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M. Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012 8:31 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: A Question Regarding OCR
Hello Everyone,
In addition to being the proud owner of a Focus 40 Blue, I also obtained
Freedom Scientific's Pearl camera along with OpenBook 9.0.
To put it simply, I am stunned with the OCR performance in both OpenBook
and
the accuracy of the camera along with the dazzling speed of the image
acquisition experience.
I think what blows my mind the most is the motion detection that allows
one
to turn pages and when the new page is in view of the camera, it
automatically takes a photo and begins the OCR process.
I swear it feels as though I have a sighted person reading for me.
I could go on and on but ...
I realize that the pearl has been out for quite some time and am wondering
if anyone knows if it will work with anything on the Mac.
I know one thing for sure, with the Pearl in my toolbox, I have put my
scanner away for good.
Mark
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