[bksvol-discuss] Re: FineReader Still Kicks Butt!
- From: "tom hawkins" <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:50:52 -0800
Hi Donna, Please let me know how it does on a 500 page book. FR8, although it
did well in most respects, it did put extra section breaks into my word doc
file, in fact 152 extra breaks! In all other areas it out performed omni page.
Didn't have the problem with FR7. Tom
----- 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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