According to what I read on the Abby site, if you can find a scanner with twain drivers that are not emulated, Abbyy should work directly with that scanner. To me, that implies that you wouldn't need another app to do the actual scanning process, such as viewscan. thus far, I haven't heard of anybody who has been using such a scanner, and I surely can't tell how to differentiate whether drivers are emulated or the real thing, so to speak. Since a 2-step process, where you scan all the images and then run ocr on them seems like a huge step backwards to me, I'm surprised at the number of people who seem happy with this method, but more power to you all. I'd love to know if somebody out there has found a good fast scanner that will interface directly with Fine reader so as to avoid the need for a scanning app from which Abby receives a batch of images for ocr. I scan dozens of books and can't imagine going back to the batch scan approach. What do you do when you find out your settings in image acquisition weren't quite right and you have to start scanning all over again with a different brightness setting, for instance? Also for Many, , the 10 minutes noted in a previous post was the time it took to process the scanned images, not the time it took to scan those pages. Its the manual scanning and flipping that takes the time. With fast computers with lots of memory, ocr is not the time eater. <smile>
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