[macvoiceover] Vuescan/readiris info conglomeration

Well, it's not organized enough to call it a compilation!!!
Okay, here's the post which, among other comments, tells how to get readiris and vuescan working together. 

Three other comments in addition to what is below:
1. Apparently the watermark on the demo does affect scanning results; I haven't broken down and bought readiris again yet (had bought it once and got it refunded when I couldn't get it to work originally) so haven't done a comparison without the watermark.
2. If you are using a mac mini, either use a display/monitor or use a DVI to Composite or SVGA adaptor. It has a dvi connector on one end to hook up to your mini and a box with an RCA connector and a SVGA connector on the other end. It makes your mini act as if a monitor is attached.
3. When I tried out vuescan and readiris with the demo (haven't payed out the money to buy it again yet since I had it refunded the first time) Text Edit opened automatically for me after recognition. For carla, using the purchased product of readiris (though I don't think that's the relevant factor) a save dialog comes up which she has to complete before text edit opens. We haven't traced down the solution for this yet. 

--
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:12:44 -0600 (CST)
From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] vuescan/readiris mystery solved
This weekend I decided to do a google search re: vuescan and readiris woring together. What came up first was an email from this list which I had never received as far as I know; since I've had my problems with being bounced off this list (not by Keith!!!; by the listserv) I guess it's not amazing that this could happen. This email does give information about using vuescan and readiris together. I'll post it again at the end of this email for any others who might not have seen it. Looks like we almost have enough components here for a scanning guide but I'd like to wait until I buy readiris again so I can test thoroughtly. If somebody else beats me to the punch and does the scanning guide, I won't cry or pout or anything like that--*grin*!!!
I did get vuescan and readiris working together. I also tried the suggestion of readiris and the driver interface instead of vuescan. I think this may work for those using the lide90 as the Navigator system used is more accessible. The canoscan Toolbox used with the lide60 isn't nearly so accessible so anybody with a lide 60 may be better off with vuescan. To get readiris and vuescan working together, follow the instructions you will find in the post i missed, pasted at the bottom of this email.
I did some experimentation, scanning material with vuescan, with vuescan and readiris, and scanning with abbyy finereader in windows. The one thing I should point out is that I'm using a demo which gives me a watermark with vuescan and that could affect results. I found that passing material from vuescan to readiris does produce better results than using vuescan alone but the results aren't quite as good as those with abbyy finereader. It would be up to the individual user to determine how good is good enbough for him/her. One nice thing is that if your page is oriented incorrectly, the correct side facing dnown but the rotation being wrong, you can have the image rotated and recognize the page again instead of re-scanning. Of course, with Abbyy, the orientation doesn't matter as long as you have the right side of the page faced down. 

Here are a couple of tips from my experience:
1. If you are using the demo, open readiris before you start, because your first page won't be processed as readiris will open when vuescan finishes but will stop at the registration dialog.
2. In vuescan, it appears to me that you need to have an image typed checked in output but not the ocr box; I checked the tiff box.
3. At least in my attempts, though I have automatic ocr checked in the readiris process menu, once readiris opens you still have to do cmd-r to start this process of recognizing the page. I wasn't sure if other things needed to be done to improve the scan or if command-r was sufficient; this is all I did.
5. The first time readiris opens and i believe on subsequent opening until you do something about it, there is a dialogue for choosing your preferred output type and also for linking various output types to specific applications. This is a rather tedious job because no applications are listed; you have to go in the pop-up menu to add application and then navigate the open dialog and choose the application you want. This has to be done separately for each output type and you need to make sure that the application you choose actually does get selected and shows up in the application pop-up menu when you select the output type in the output type menu. By doing this, you can get your results to open in text edit or safari or whatever application you choose, depending on the output.
6. I didn't have problems with readiris crashing when I did cmd-r to recognize. However, do cmd-n to start a new document if you don't want all your results accumulating in the text edit or safari file or whatever you choose. 

For completeness, here is the post I had previously missed.

     * From: Jacob Schmude <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx>
     * To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
     * Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:05:41 -0700

Hi
I've not used the corporate edition, so I'm not sure how it differs from the standard edition. It's a bit late for this, but you could have purchased the upgrade for $129. It's a bit mislabeled, as it does function as an upgrade, but also functions as a fresh install of Read Iris PRO. At any rate, on the 11.5 DMG there's only one file, Install Read Iris PRO.app. Most likely the app you have on the CD is the installer. It won't hurt to try it. If this installer is anything like the installer for Pro, you're going to have to use actual mouse clicks (vo-shift-space) on the buttons to make it work. This isn't necessary in Read Iris itself, just the installer, as it uses an older carbon- based installation program. Also, when you get to the license agreement, interact with the scroll bar and scroll all the way down. Then keep pushing down arrow until you actually get to the bottom, only then will it let you click the next button. Once it's installed then you can configure Read Iris and VueScan to work together. To do so make sure Read Iris is set to load images from files, and not scan them. Go to VueScan's prefs tab and make sure external viewer is checked, and set the external viewer program to Read Iris. It is a pre-listed choice, so no other configuration should be needed after that. You should be able to scan with VueScan and the image should then load into Read Iris and can be recognized. Note though that this is with Pro, not corporate. For all I know corporate may be much better at scanning 
   and eliminate the need for VueScan entirely.


 --

Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."



Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com

Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover 


Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com

Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover

Other related posts: