[bksvol-discuss] Re: FineReader Still Kicks Butt!

But OpenBook contains Fine Reader as one of its OCR engines.  How can Fine 
Reader be more accurate than itself, assuming I choose to use Fine Reader as 
the engine to recognize text in OpenBook?  Has Fine Reader degraded the OCR 
engine in OpenBook, somehow?

Slightly confused.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Donna Smith 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:03 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] FineReader Still Kicks Butt!


  Those of you who have been on this list for a while will remember that I have 
been a confirmed user of an off-the-shelf scanning software package called 
FineReader for a few years.  Well as of late, my desktop has been out of 
service and I've been using my laptop from work which has Kurzweil 9.0 on it.  
While I've been too busy to do much book scanning, I've nevertheless been 
scanning the usual piles of print stuff that comes across my desk both at work 
and home and learning to use Kurzweil in the process.  I am duly impressed with 
many of the features of Kurzweil, except for the quality of lengthy scans.  

   

  This week I needed to scan a 60 page document for work and was motivated to 
search out FineReader again.  I went to their web site www.abbyyusa.com and 
downloaded a trial version of FineReader 8.0.  I am totally blown away yet 
again!  I've been using FR7, and this latest upgrade is truly awesome!  

   

  In addition to giving the most accurate scan of any software I've ever used 
(including OpenBook, OmniPage and Kurzweil), it does some awesome things with 
PDF documents and things photo copied on a copier that will save images as a 
PDF file.  Even our IT guy at work who is really hard to impress was amazed!  I 
plan to purchase the upgrade for myself, and my employer is buying multiple 
copies of the software called PDF Transformer at $50 a pop for transforming 
hard copy materials into electronic files.  

   

  The only downside for those of us who use screen readers is still that once 
you've scanned something in, JAWS will not read it from within FineReader.  You 
have to save it and pull it up in another program such as Word, Notepad or 
Kurzweil.  All of the menu options accessed by pressing the Alt key are 
accessible, and it is very user friendly to learn and set up.  The cost of the 
FineReader 8.0 is $399.99.  

   

  If you feel adventurous and want to check it out, go to

   

  http://www.abbyyusa.com

   

  and click on Products and then Downloads and try the trial copy for 15 days.  

   

  I'm really jazzed and am ready to put it to the real test of scanning a book!

   

  Peace and Hope,

   

  Donna

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