[macvoiceover] Re: OCR on the Mac
- From: Jacob Schmude <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:37:35 -0700
Hi
Yes they are, though some labels actually occur to the right of the
button they represent, rather than grouped with the button.
On Apr 23, 2008, at 8:31 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Are the buttons labeled on the Readiris software solution?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:03 AM
Subject: [macvoiceover] OCR on the Mac
Hi Everyone
I'm sure this is going to come up, so I figured I'd post what I
know of the OCR situation on the Mac. Note, I'm not counting
running a program in fusion, I'm sticking to genuine Mac software.
While I know a version of k3000 exists for the Mac, I've not tried
it as I do not use blindness software when commercial, readily
available software will do the job just as well.
At any rate, there are three programs that do OCR on the Mac that
I'm aware of. They are:
Read Iris from http://www.irislink.com
Omnipage Pro X from Nuance
and VueScan from http://www.hamrick.com.
I can't comment on Omnipage, as I haven't found a copy yet, and to
be honest I'm not sure if Nuance (formerly Scansoft) even still
supports and maintains the Mac version. They don't have a trial
available for download and I'm unwilling to spend $500 on a piece
of software that may or may not be being maintained.
This leaves Read Iris and VueScan. VueScan is primarily software
for scanning images and pictures, but it has a limited OCR engine
built in. It's OCR isn't all that good, but it's still a program
worth having if you may ever be scanning in images for any
purpose, as it provides a lot of fine-grained control over the
image acquisition process. The OCR engine in it has very little
layout analysis and can really not do much other than straight text.
This leaves Read Iris, which is the one I use daily. Their website
is just a complete horror to navigate around, and I'm not even
sure they offer a free trial download anymore as they used to--if
they do, I can't seem to locate it. Version 11.5 of Read Iris has
very good recognition results, on par, I'd say, with FineReader or
Omnipage for windows. It is a marked improvement from version
11.0, if anyone on this list has used that. It has a few features
that these programs do not, such as the ability to merge lines
into paragraphs, removing the split-word problem we often have in
the world of OCR. Read Iris costs $129, so it's not outrageously
priced and they occasionally run promos where they sell it for
$59, usually around Christmas time or when there's a major version
update. It does not have a built-in text editor, when the pages
are recognized they're sent to whichever application you've
specified. This is the OCR program I'm most familiar with.
Well, just thought I'd send along an overview of the programs I
know about for OCR. There may be more than this, but these are the
three I know of. Does anyone know if Omnipage Pro X is still being
updated and supported by Nuance? I've called and asked but the
people I talked to don't seem to know, they just insist on quoting
me the price.
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