I now have Fine Reader 5 for the Mac. Apparently that's the only one available. But unlike the one I had before, it will only save one page at a time, as far as I can tell. It scans and "reads" o.k., and saves instantly, but I have to save each page in a folder and then copy them one by one to the book file I'm working on. Fortunately, I'm only scanning missing pages or short children's books. I preferred the other one, where I could convert and save several pagees as one file. Cindy --- Donna Smith <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay. I've done some playing around with FR8 this > weekend. I'm using an > Epson Perfection 1660 and I've chosen the FineReader > interface option for > scanning. I also went through the set up options > and read the help files. > It's amazing what you can learn like that! <big > grin> I unchecked > everything they said might slow down the scan and > everything that looked to > be unnecessary since I only want text and will do > the editing in another > program, but it's still very sluggish. The really > strange thing is that it > gets slower with each page scanned. So the lapse > between scans for the > first page will be 15 seconds, then 22 seconds, then > 28, then 35, then 40. > I'm not sure how slow it will get because my > patience run out long before we > get there! I've never had this happen with any > scanning software. > > > > I then went back to FR7 and unfortunately got the > same results. All this is > with my laptop, but it has a lot of memory and is > usually a pretty fast > computer. > > > > The other thing I don't like about FR8 is that it is > saving each page > scanned as a file in my ebooks folder. This is > happening even though I > checked the option in the save dialogue to create > one file for all pages and > am not even saving it as a batch file when I'm done > scanning and saving. I > think FR7 did something like this, too, but it saved > it somewhere in the > FineReader manager and I just had to go in > periodically and delete the file > so it could start all over again. > > > > I wanted to go back to my desktop to check on the > setting options I used > before, but can't get into it. It's a long story, > but the end result is > that I can't access anything on my desktop for now. > > > > > Does anyone still have the last message I sent out > about setting up > FineReader for scanning? Of course, my copy of that > message is on my > on-strike desktop. > > > > I'm determined to get to the bottom of all this. I > like FR too much to give > up on it yet. > > > > Peace and Hope, > > > > Donna > > > > _____ > > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Pratik patel > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 8:28 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More FineReader > testing > > > > Donna, > > > > Under FRPro's Scanning options, which interface are > you using? It will > typically ask you to use iether the original > application (i.e., the > scanner's interface) or the Fine Reader interface. > What scanner are you > using? with my trial version, I have not > encountered that particular > problem. In fact, a book scanned with a gray-scale > and 400 DPI setting > scans faster with the same scanner than it does with > either K1000 or > Openbook. > > > > Pratik > > > > _____ > > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Donna Smith > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:32 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] More FineReader testing > > Hello to those of you who are playing around with > FineReader. I currently > own FR Professional version 7.0, but am testing > version 8.0 on a trial > basis. I've started scanning a book tonight, and > can't figure out why it is > scanning so incredibly slowly. I think I'm using > the same settings I use > with FR7, but the lapse between pages is > interminable, and I don't even have > the box checked to pause between pages! Usually, I > check this box and tell > it to pause for 5 seconds. Any ideas? > > > > The resulting scan is good except for treating the > headings like columns and > ending it with a section break continuous. The text > of the book is > beautiful, though. Of course, I get beautiful text > with FR7 without the > other problems, so if this doesn't get better soon, > I will be saving myself > the cost of the upgrade. > > > > I'm very interested to hear what others are > experiencing. > > > > Peace and Hope, > > > > Donna > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.