[macvoiceover] Re: More Concerns about Readiris pro
- From: Travis Siegel <windowbridge@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:38:16 -0500
On Jul 21, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
You say preferences worked fine for you, when you configured it. How
did
you configure it? Either using cmd-coma or preferences from the menus
gives me an unusable window with busy signals.
I used command-comma, and all the options work just fine for me, I
didn't get busy signals or anything while I was configuring it.
Now, just for reference, on my macbook, read iris works just fine.
On my mac mini, it doesn't behave so well, and often times, I need to
resort to the macbook to do any serious work using read iris. I have
no idea why this is, they both have the same amount of memory, they're
both using the same version of the os, and as far as I know, the
preferences are set the same.
So, it could just be a case of hardware incompatibilities, though how
that's possible I have no idea.
What do you mean by "find document to ocr"? You don't have a
document to
ocr until there's been a scan, do you? Also what do you mean by scan
if
necessary? How else would you have anything to read if you don't
scan it?
Occasionally, I have documents that come from other sources (such as
pdf files that are images instead of actual text), gif images of books
posted in a web site I work with sometimes (though generally the
images aren't required, only if there's a problem with the text I
can't resolve and don't have sighted assistance), or if someone else
has scanned a document for me previously.
Admittedly, this last has only happened once or twice, but the concept
still applies.
Thanks for the tip about linux ocr but for serious book scanning for a
blind person I don't think that has progressed very far. If I don't
like
the readiris pro setup I'll ask for a refund and continue to use Abbyy
finereader in Windows which works quite well for me; I was simply
hoping
to eliminate one of my needs to use windows. Also, Carla doesn't
have the
Windows option so even if i decide not to proceed with readiris pro, I
want to try to help her set up something that's going to be
consistently
useful.
It was merely a suggestion, I've not fiddled with that particular
package, so have no idea how good (or not) it may be, though it
looks like it's probably something I should look into.
The scan option on our all-in-one unit allows you to save the
generated image to any number of places, including a save to disk
option, so you could always just put the document on the scanner, hit
the scan button, and have it save it to a file on the hd, then open
read iris and proceed as mentioned before.
Instead of trying to use read iris for this portion of the process,
which may not be accessible.
I'll see if I can get my copy of read iris to scan a document
directly, but usually we let the scanner do the work, then load it
afterwords.
(actually, I didn't know read iris could scan directly, until you
began posting about it a while ago).
--
Cheryl
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