I am currently using snow lepard, vuescan and abby fine reader
express. Can i upgrade these with lion? I'd like to update to
lion, but dont want to lose my scanning software.
Thanks.
Steph
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tanner" <david.tanner...@gmail.com
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Date sent: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:11:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?
I would totally agree with you. I do realize that some people
need to scan
in other languages, but I get the strong impression that some on
this list
have discounted DocuScan Plus way too far. If they would try it
I think
that they would find that it has a lot to offer, and is an
excellent choice
compaired to some of the off-the-shelf or website products that
are more
regularly recommended that have far less to offer the blind user.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Carter" <nc5rn...@gmail.com
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?
Hi,
If scanning in other languages is really a show stopper then I
guess
DocuScan Plus is not for you. I am convinced, however, that it
is the best
solution for english at the present time on the Mac. I encourage
you to take
advantage of their free trial and see what you think.
I use DocuScan Plus with the HoverCam which is a portable camera
that works
really well.
Robert Carter
On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Rachel magario wrote:
Thanks Anne,
You are right, I do need multiple languages, and I am guessing
computer
language is like another language on its own sometimes. :)
I noticed the quality issue, so I was thinking to buy those
scanners that
have 3 high speed cameras. Do you know if that works well by
any chance?
Also, is there a type of scanner that works better with vuescan
over
another?
How do you do your books? Do you turn page by page, or you feed
pages
through? I was told that unbinding the books might help?
Also, I was told that Abbyy FineReader shows the corrections
with an image
next to the text, so how do you chooce the corrected text? Is it
accessible with vo?
Thanks so much!
Rachel
On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Rachel,
If you're going to be scanning in languages other than just
English, then
DocuScan is not for you.
Abbyy FineReader can handle up to three languages in the one
document and
does a good job.
I use VueScan to create the images as it does an excellent job,
then I
have it set to hand over to ABBYY FineReader to do the OCR.
I scan a whole book at a time using VueScan, then ABBYY
FineReader does
the OCR in one go.
You can't start reading the book until the OCR is finished.
The thing to remember about scanning and OCR, is that the output
depends
on the quality of the input. You have to make sure that the
scans are as
good as possible, which can be difficult when scanning a
double-page of a
book at a time. I place a print dictionary on top of the
scanner lid to
hold the book flat while scanning and get good results this way.
Cheers,
Anne
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