Hi
To scan with Read Iris, under preferences, change the image source
from "file" to your scanner, which will be listed in the pop-up menu
if the driver is installed correctly. There is also an image source
button on the toolbar which will do this. Open will now function as
scan. I know, these developers could seriously use some lessons on
user-interface design.
The hotkey to recognize a document is command-r. You can use
automatic OCR, which will OCR each page as soon as it's done
scanning, if you wish.
As for your third question, give me a bit to write a guide or look
back at the archives of both this group and the macvisionaries
group. I feel like a broken record the number of times I've given
instructions on how to set these two programs up to work together,
honestly.
Read Iris does do much better OCR than VueScan on its own, Vuescan
has the simpleOCR engine integrated and it is certainly simple. It
has almost no facilities for handling layout at all. Read Iris may
have an odd user interface and pathetic scanning facilities, but its
OCR engine is very good. If only Nuance wouldn't have left Omnipage
Pro X collecting dust...
On Feb 11, 2009, at 01:09, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
I guess I must just enjoy adversity, because I decided to install
the Readiris demo and have another go at it. I will forbear from
mentioning all the little quirks of the installation process since
they've already been discussed. Having had limited success
following installation, I have the following questions:
(1) I realize that several people say they scan with vuescan.
However, if one wanted to try scanning with readiris, how would one
go about it? In the menus I can find an open but I can find no scan
button either in the toolbar or the menus. Obviously I'm missing
something here so could somebody tell me specifically how to get
the program to scan?
(2) Once you either get readiris to scan or load something from
vuescan or your hard drive, how do you get it to ocr? Will it do it
automatically if you have automatic ocr checked or are there still
steps you have to take? Also, to get the best ocr, what are those
of you using it with vuescan using as the image or file type being
fed to readiris? Ok that's three questions under the guise of one,
but if I list and number them all, this is going to look like the
long version of your income tax return and I'll probably be kicked
off the list once people start to associate me with the IRS!!!
(3) If/when I get readiris and vuescan both working properly, and
if I don't want to scan with readiris or can't figure out how to
scan with readiris, how do I set up vuescan and readiris to work
together. Since I haven't figured it out on my own, I probably need
a pretty specific answer if possible.
Tia.
--
Cheryl
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