Interesting. thanks, Anne. It's too bad, I would go crazy if I didn't have an ADF, I don't think I want to buy two separate apps, though. so will have to keep thinking about this. Best, Donna On Jun 29, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello Donna, > > I haven't got a scanner with an automatic document feeder so I can't test > this. However, ABBYY FineReader for Mac is an express version so doesn't have > all the options. > > For those of us with simple scanners, the advantage of VueScan is that it's > much more efficient than FineReader for scanning. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 29 Jun 2013, at 14:47, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi Anne, >> >> so I have a scanner with an automatic document feeder that holds approx 50 >> pages. Is it not possible to start a scan in ABBYY and just have it scan >> continuously as long as there is paper in the document feeder? It is >> possible to do this in Windows, so it seems like it ought to be possible on >> the Mac as well. >> Best, >> Donna >> On Jun 29, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hello Christina, >>> >>> It isn't actually necessary to use VueScan with FineReader, but it makes >>> scanning multiple pages much easier and quicker. You can scan multiple >>> pages with ABBYY FineReader, but you have to perform several actions >>> between pages whereas with VueScan, you can either set it to autorepeat or >>> press Cmd-n for each scan, then Cmd-g to tell VueScan that you've scanned >>> the final page, and it will close the file and open FineReader so that FR >>> can perform the OCR. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>> On 29 Jun 2013, at 03:24, Christina C. <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Why do folks suggest that we buy both? What are the benefits to scanning >>>> with vuescan and then using Abby fine reader for the OCR? Why can't we >>>> just use fine reader for the scanning as well? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Christina >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
