Hello Alex, The unlabelled buttons all have help tags so you can identify them by pressing VO-Shift-h.
I don't understand half those settings either and I'm not prepared to wast my time on it since it doesn't seem to handle double pages, which makes scanning books a pain in the fundament! Sorry not to be of more help. Cheers, Anne On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:36, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I finally have my 2400 DPI Epson printer/scanner set up, so I grabbed the > free trial of Prizmo and gave it a shot. I used the manual the printer came > with as a test document. > > 1. The app has a bunch of unlabeled buttons and seems very cluttered. > 2. There are options that make no sense at all, such as how big the page is. > Can't it figure out the page size by, you know, looking at the page? Why do I > have to choose that? > 3. The scan took minutes - I walked away for a while, and came back, and it > was done (finally), but... > 4. It slowed my Mac down to a near halt! VO would not respond, and toggling > it off and on resulted, some twenty seconds after pressing the keys, in VO > turning off. Only after much more fiddling did I get VO running again. > Eventually, the Prizmo app started behaving normally, so I tried OCR... > 5. OCR did nothing. All I saw was the same screen I'd seen before, no HTML > area, no text, nothing but the image and a bunch of options, plus unlabeled > buttons. > > Overall, considering their iOS app, I expected a great deal more from Prizmo > on the Mac. Are there settings I need to change? Does anyone have hints for > getting things to actually work? Thanks for any thoughts. > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected] > > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
