Ok I wont use this program then, upside-down happens often and I need a program that can scan multiple pages at once (I am sure this is a limitation of the express version though because I am quite sure their windows version can at least scan multiple pages at a time) if I get a reaction from their sales department I will tell them about these issues though so that they might be resolved in the future. Greetings, Anouk, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Kearney" <gkear...@gmail.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:08 AM Subject: Re: finereader for the mac (ocr)
> > I too have looked at this program. It has a number of issues: > > Unlabelled buttons, our old friend the unlabelled button! What is so > hard about filling out the accessibility field in interface builder, I > would like to know, that keeps developers from doing this? I was able > to open the interface files and add the missing labels and I could > make a patch file to permit other to add these to their copies but I > am unsure of the legality of such an action. > > Much more serious is the fact that the program seems unable to detect > pages placed in the scanner upside down, a common issue with blind > users and which would limit it usefulness. > > Finally there seems to be no option that I have found to have the > scanners work in any kind of continues mode for the scanning of a book > for example. > > On the whole the interface is accessible however and when it does do > OCR the results is very accurate. > > > Gregory Kearney > Manager - Accessible Media > Association for the Blind of Western Australia > 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 > Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia > > Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 > Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) > Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 > Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) > Email: gkear...@gmail.com > > On 20/08/2009, at 3:27 AM, a radix wrote: > >> Hello, I was doing some searching about this and I noticed on the >> abby site that there IS a finereader version for the mac BUT >> apparently its an express version (so I suppose its stripped) I will >> contact abby about it however because I have heard good things about >> finereader, here is the link: >> Pagina ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac - 1-2-3 Paper Free >> http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/ >> >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
