Pete, I got some info from another user on the list and I got the
impression and perhaps incorrectly that OP ws a little tricky to work
with. Well what the hell, with a 30-day return policy, you really
can't go wrong. I haven't found Read Iris to be really bad, but then
again there are a few things that are annoying,b ut the idea I can
automate the process a bit and also zone sections of pages, well now
that might just make it worth the upgrade. I'll probably get it
really soon and will have some questions for sure and appreciate your
offer of assistance.
Scott
On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:13 PM, Pete Horrocks wrote:
Hey Scott,
let me know what you come up with. i thought that the full version
of OP was very friendly with VO. in fact i found it to be more
friendly than VO by itself. one problem that i had with VO was
getting to read the whole document without having to wait till it
stops reading and then advance to the next page and start the
reading again. with OP when you tell it to read the whole document
it just does and doesn't stop until it reaches the end of the
document.
good luck and let me know what you find.
Pete
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Ok Pete, thanks a lot. Geez your making me give this more thought
than I was before. Having the ability to choose those areas sounds
interesting and how you'd do that is even more fascinating. So I
gather dealing with OP isnt' to bad, I sure wish the SE version
gave a better feel for the full version, but at first look it
appears to be more a bummer than anything else. I'm hoping a new
version of OP will be out and maybe if we can get to them early in
the game, they'll do something about making it more VO friendly. I
plan to dig into this you can bet.
tnx
Scott
On Apr 5, 2006, at 11:12 PM, Pete Horrocks wrote:
np Scott,
i started out using RI too, but there is so much more you can do
with OP, like zoning out only the sections that you want to have
read, you can even have OP read your scanned document and it
reads it in the order you have it zoned, it uses the Macs built
in Voice Over to do this. and you can save it in many formats for
other programs to open. if you have any questions once you start
using OP feel free to use me, i'll help where i can.
Pete
On Apr 5, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Thanks Pete. I am currently using Read Iris which as far as I
can tell is doing a good job, but there are some features in
Omni Page I'm interested in. I might consider trying it seeing
as how they have a 30-day return policy so at least if it really
is a drag, I can return it and no hard feelings.grin
Scott
On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Pete Horrocks wrote:
Hey Scott,
I have used OmniPage. so far i have had pretty good luck with
it. you do have to work with it some, by that i mean you have
to select the zones and the format of the zones, but even that
is not to hard to do. i wish some one would write some ocr
software that would read my mind and do exactly what i want it
to do without any work on my part, but maybe some day!!! i
guess the only complaint that i have with it so far is that i
am just to lazy.
please feel free to ask any questions, don't know if i will
have the answers but i will try.
Pete
