Hi, Russell,
I have read Iris and the trial of vue scan. I've been seriously
considering purchasing vue scan. I'm just wondering if it reads
things like your mail accurately? This might be the clincher for
me. I know some can us Read Iris without vue scan, but for some
reason Read Iris alone doesn't do it for me. Thanks for any
feedback! Marcy
On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:17 AM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
Hi Cheryl & all,
I've only had it working for a short time, so don't know how
accurate the recognition will be with different types of materials,
but I can say that what I've scanned so far has had really accurate
results. And as I said in a previous post, it's really fast! Now,
keep in mind that I had an extra 2 gigs of Ram put in my system, so
have a total of 4 gigs, which will improve scanning and OCR times.
After reading your message, I did a multipage scan just to see how
well that would work. Of course, it was a bit slower than just
scanning one page, but it was still quite fast. The pamphlet I
scanned was 8 pages, and the results turned out great. When Read
Iris opens, it lets you know that there are multiple pages in the
file, and asks how many of the pages you wish to import. By
default, it's set to all pages. I'm not sure why this dialogue
comes up as it would seem silly to scan 8 pages and then ask for
only 2 to be imported.
Cheryl, in Windows, I useed OpenBook, latest edition (8.02) and also
OmniPage 17. I found that when something wouldn't scan well in
OpenBook, sometimes OmniPage would do a better job. From what I see
so far, I'd say that the VueScan/Read Iris combo does as good, if
not a better job than OpenBook or OmniPage.
Now, as for how much I scan: well I don't scan books or anything
like that.. well, once in a while if there's a book I can't get in
any other format, I'll scan it, but I don't do a lot of that type of
scanning. Mostly I scan my mail, magazines, agendas and so forth.
Cheryl, I hope this is helpful. If you have any other questions,
feel free to ask away! As I scan more, I'llkeep you all up to date
on my findings! <smile>
Russell
On 9-Aug-09, at 9:41 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Hi Russell.
Congratulations on getting vuescan and readiris up and running!!!
Can you report on the quality of your scans with vuescan/readiris
compared to other scanning methods you use. Having spent a lot of
money on Abbyy Finereader in Windows, I'm reluctant to spend money
again, especially since I think I'd want readiris corporate instead
of the basic version. But if I can get a definite comparison
indicating vuescan/readiris is truly equivalent, I might consider
using some of my income tax refund next year to this end. Please
indicate what solution you were using for scanning prior to vuescan
and readiris, whether you did a lot of scanning and how the
solutions compare in accuracy if you wouldn't mind.
Tia.
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