Donna, I do agree and I think purchasing software without trying it first can be painful and it was. I finally got my money back from ABBYY's reseller, but it did take some messages and pushing to make them understand why I wanted my money back. I'd have to see some improvements in scanner support or at least scanner support in the environment in which I use my scanner. I did not find the software difficult to work with really at all. Read Iris worked pretty good and I wonder if the new version will be more of an improvement, but well likely when it is released, you'll have a chance to try it first. On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> > Hi Scott, > > ReadIris was the option that I was thinking of that involved > multiple apps, VueScan and ReadIris. > > I thought I recalled a thread on the list a few weeks back, about > ABBYY having some accessibility issues. Maybe it was what you > describe, i.e. Problems talking to the software that comes with your > scanner, I don't recall. but it seemed like some people had tried > it, and hadn't been happy with it. I think I have a recollection of > someone even writing to them about accessibility questions? To be > fair, I sort of stopped my exploration there, because of the fact > that ABBYY won't let you buy a demo. I like my current OCR setup a > lot, and I definitely want to demo any replacement options before > purchasing. > Take care, > Donna > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Howell <s.how...@verizon.net> > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:10 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Need Advice: OCR > > > Donna, I think there are some very good options on the Mac and you > don't need three different packages. Everyone has their own way of > doing things and I think ABBYY FineReader Express is a real option if > they make some tweaks that I'd like to see and mostly working with my > scanner, which is a network appliance. THe software itself seem to > work just fine. I think where people encounter problems and I'm sure > this affects windows users as well, is the bundled software a lot of > scanners come with. Seems a lot of scanners have software that talks > directly to the twain driver or I guess pretty much must be used > directly to perform the scan, which then the results are passed on to > the software such as ABBYY etc. > I know one person that uses another app I can't think of and I'm sure > there is a reason and I think it had something to do with by-passing > the software of the scanner. SOme developers of scanner drivers do > allow third-party apps to talk directly to the twain driver, but this > is out of my area of knowledge, but I really think this is where > people have the most difficulty. Read Iris is another solution that > has worked well and they are also apparently coming out with a new > version and it will be interesting to see how that works as well. > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> >> Hi Terrence, >> >> I have been watching posts on the list re the various Mac options, >> and I came to the conclusion that the best option for me was to keep >> my Windows PC set up for scanning purposes. I'd love to see a >> really good scanning/ocr option for the Mac--one that doesn't >> involve three different apps--but from what I can tell, it just >> isn't there yet. >> >> HTH, >> Donna >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Terrence <terre...@terrencevak.net> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 2:07 PM >> To: MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Need Advice: OCR >> >> >> Not sure if my other message went through, so I'm posting it again; >> please forgive any repeats. >> After spending $249 on Premier Assistive Technology's literacy >> package >> because of the scan-and-read functionality, I have decided the >> thing's >> not all it's cracked up to be, since it opened in an X11 window and >> didn't work at all with VO. So now I'm doing what I think I should >> have done in the first place instead of listening to the general AT >> specialist who spoke on the Mac at our local AT conference; I'm on my >> knees to the true experts...fellow users. What do you all all use >> for >> OCR tochnology that *works*? I know there's been a lot of discussion >> about OCR experimenting lately, but I need something that's going to >> work with a minimum of finagling so I can spend my time *READING* the >> documents I scan rather than fighting with the software. True I like >> putzing, but for my day-to-day stuff I'd really prefer not to have to >> do that more than necessary. >> >> Thanks, >> Terrence >> >> >> >> >>> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
