[macvoiceover] Re: Abbyy Fine Reader with scanners or Isight.
- From: John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:55:00 -0400
Hi Cheryl,
Thank you for the information. It's interesting because my scanner
facility does not give me the option to do much. Once the image is selected,
it says it's scanning to FineReader, but nothing else happens. I guess I'll
use Vuscan for the scanner part.
Take Care
John
On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> As I understand it, Finereader doesn't scan by itself on the Mac. either you
> use vuescan or it takes you to the scan facilities installed with your HP. As
> for its recognition, it does as well as if not better than readiris, which is
> the other program people are using. You will perhaps still want to use
> vuescan for the scanning part though some people don't; you'll have to
> experiment and decide. Be careful with readiris; they've called me four times
> to advertise and I've told them twice not to call this number again or i'll
> notify the Better Business Bureau since I had told them to take me off their
> calling list. The latest version (12 I believe) isn't as friendly and useable
> as 11 was; that's partly why I switched to Abbyy. That and the fact that
> Abbyy worked for me so well on Windows. I hope they will come out with a full
> version for the Mac eventually instead of just the express version. Right now
> I mostly scan with finereader; if I don't like the way it scans something,
> then I try it with readiris and see if that is any better. One thing I like
> about finereader is that it doesn't give you a limit on the number of pages
> it will allow you to process at a time; readiris gives you a limit of 50
> unless you buy the more expensive version. This isn't a huge problem since
> you can actually scan as much as you want at a time using vuescan and then
> pick the pages you have readiris process.
>
> Vuescan is at w.hamrick.com
>
> Readiris is at www.readiris.com.
>
> Hth.
>
> --
>
> Cheryl
> "Let the words of my mouth,
> and the meditation of my heart,
> be acceptable in thy sight,
> O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."
> (Psalm 19:14 Bible KJV)
>
>
>
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