[macvoiceover] vuescan/readiris mystery solved
- From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:12:44 -0600 (CST)
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.
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
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