Hello Brian, You should be able to connect your scanner to your Mac, then launch ABBYY Finereader and your scanner should show up in the table of sources. Select your scanner then click the Convert to text button or whichever task you want.
My Canon Lide 110 shows up twice in the table, once for its twain driver and the second time with something labelled ICA. Both work. Cheers, Anne On 14 Jun 2013, at 19:06, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey listers, > > I just installed the trial of ABBY Fine REader, and please forgive my > ignorance on this. I am assuming that I scan my mail the same way using my > Canoscan and it's software, and when the scan is finished I then open the > scan in ABBY Fine REader and either choose convert to text document or > another option? Is this how the software works? Does the OCR some how make > better use of the recognition than the Canon software. Meaning if something > comes through garbled in the original Canoscan that ABBY Fine Reader's OCR > can make sense of it? Just tried a practice document and yes, it was easier > to read in ABBY fine reader but want to comprehend how it works, and not sure > if the scan came through ok with Canoscan on this one. I would have thought > you would use ABBY to scan the document therefore cutting out the mistakes > Canoscan's poor OCR would make with the initial scan. Thanks. > > -- > 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. > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
