William, I cannot speak for ABBYY as I have never used it. Nor, can I offer much info about prizmo as I am very new to prizmo 2. I have a little bit of experience. I was able to use my scanner directly from prizmo. I scanned a two page paperback book and the results were good. I was able to export the OCR'd document into a pdf. I found it a bit cumbersome and a bit difficult to get around, but it's brand new to me so I'm not sure if I am just a slow learner and it's actually simple. If you go to the mac app store it will tell you all the ways you can import documents for OCR. A few I remember is, from a camera, from a scanner, from a file, and from screen capture. I believe you can even use your iPhone while hooked up to your computer to take a picture. HTH, Christina
On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:37 PM, William Windels <william.wind...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > This app seems interesting, accessible with voiceover and seems to have more > features then abby fine reader express that I am using on the mac. > > However, I can figure out if this program is also designed to work with a > scanner: should it be possible to start/stop my scanner from inside the > program? > Or is this program (only) designed to import pictures from the hd to ocr them? > > If I can use the program with my scanner, is it also possible to scan from > inside the app while the ocr process is going? > > Thx for your remarks. > > Kind regards, > William Windels > Op 2-feb.-2013, om 02:20 heeft Esther <mori...@mac.com> het volgende > geschreven: > >> Hello Mary, Les, and Others, >> >> Apparently you can download a trial version of Prizmo 2 from the >> developer's web, but not, of course, from the Mac App store. Try going >> to the Macupdate page for this app and use the "Download Now" link: >> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31157/prizmo >> I would be cautious about this, since I think Anne Robertson purchased >> Prizmo version 1, and wasn't very happy with it. On the other hand, >> many people who did not think much of the first version seem to like >> the second version. Not some thing I would buy without trying. >> >> Please note that you may need to make your purchase from the Mac App >> store to get the discounted MacWorld special price. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> >> On Feb 1, 1:24 pm, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I will be curious how it works if you try it, Les. I was kind of hoping I >>> could buy it at this price and then install it on a future Mac, but it >>> won't let me do that because I have only SL. And of course I meant os >>> 10.7.5, not ios 10.7.5 in my original note. >>> Mary Otten >>> motte...@gmail.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
