HI Brian, DocuScan Plus gives me fantastic results for mail such as letters, brochures and even credit cards and the like. One thing it does which is really good is that it ignores images and the like and just gives you the text. Most other programs I've used get really confused with images and give you a whole bunch of jibberish which really interrupts the flow of reading. DocuScan's results are also really reliable so you can use it for phone numbers, account numbers, email addresses and URLs etcetera. It even recognises headings, which make it easy for navigation, and makes email addresses and URLs into hyperlinks so you can click on them directly from the document.
I've never used the software which is native with Canoscan so I can't comment on it. I've often found the software which comes with the scanner to be inaccessible. So I'm surprised and impressed if you say that yours is accessible and can do OCR. That's great. Perhaps the results aren't as good as some of these third party apps, but you'll save some money if you stick to what you've got. One down side to DocuScan Plus is that you can't use it for scanning documents you want to send off to sighted persons. DocuScan ignores images and just grabs the text so it's great for us but looks funny and not original for sighted persons. So, for this type of thing, I just use Preview and import from scanner. -- 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.
