Hi Alex, As Kirsten said, if you visit the web site you can download a trial demo. I'll paste in the information in a post from April, which would also come up immediately if you did a search of the Mail Archive site for this list, and type into the text box something like: ABBYY Finereader trial sort:newest then press return. (Alternatively, a search like "from:Esther ABBYY trial" would also bring this up as the first result).
Here's the link to the page where you can get a trial download of ABBYY Finereader Express: http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/trial/# You can also just purchase it from the Mac App Store for $99.99 (but there's no available trial download when you use that site): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abbyy-finereader-express/id412310371?mt=12 The price is standard, although I was surprised to see that they dropped the Mac App Store price to $49.99 on Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving) last year. It was either just for that day, or possibly the weekend, and I've never known them to do that before. By the way, using the Mail Archive for this list to search for information is a wonderful resource. You can also read the posts on that site if you just want to keep tabs on what's going on: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ I'll also comment to Kirsten that I've been able to read off protected PDF forms created with Adobe Reader software with ABBYY FineReader by screen capturing the window for each page and then opening the images in ABBYY FineReader. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 2, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > You can demo this one. It's called abbyyfine reader express. That's the app I > mean. But you can download a demo, I think from their website, which allows > you either 15 days, I think or 15 tries, whichever comes first. It only > allows you to do a page at the time for this, but it gives you a good idea of > how it works. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2 Jul 2012, at 23:20, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Great, thanks. Too bad there's no way to demo an app before you >> actually buy it. Still, good to know it's there; this is one more >> thing Windows no longer has to itself with Open Book or Kurzweil. >> >> On 7/2/12, irid domnori <irid.domn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Yes it works with scanners as well and you can find this application in the >>> app store. >>> It costs 100$. >>> >>> Il giorno 03/lug/2012, alle ore 00:12, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> ha >>> scritto: >>> >>>> Is this a mac app from the app store, or from a third party? What is >>>> the cost? Will it work with scanners? I didn't realize the mac had an >>>> OCR option, and I'd love to know more. >>>> >>>> On 7/2/12, Kirsten Edmondson <kirsten.edmond...@btinternet.com> wrote: >>>>> Wow, I can't believe how well this conversion works. Hardly any >>>>> mistakes, >>>>> and certainly none that hinder understanding! >>>>> I've had experience of FR on Windows but I don't think I ever converted >>>>> JPEG, just PDF, but this is great! >>>>> I love Fine Reader and I love the versitility of the Mac!!!! >>>>> Thanks for confirming what I had to do! >>>>> >>>>> On 1 Jul 2012, at 01:36, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thank you Ann! I hoped it would be this easy! >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> Kirsten >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>> >>>>>> On 30 Jun 2012, at 06:43, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello Kirsten, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Just place yourself on the JPG file you want to convert, press >>>>>>> VO-Shift-m >>>>>>> to get a contextual menu, go down to Open with, go right and select >>>>>>> ABBYY >>>>>>> FineReader and it will do the job. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Anne >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 30 Jun 2012, at 05:30, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have some JPG files on my computer, e-mailed to me by work. >>>>>>>> Obviously >>>>>>>> these are inaccessible ordinarily, but I wondered if I open them on >>>>>>>> my >>>>>>>> Mac, through fine reader, could I convert them? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Kirsten. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>>>> -- 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.
