Hi Ray, I have only ever used free OCR products that come bundled with scanners so far, so I can't give a personal recommendation, but I read with interest the review that Brian provided of ABBYY Fine Reader Express. I just wanted to point out that if you bring up the Mac App Store and enter the search term "OCR", the result is eleven programs that includes ABBYY Fine Reader. The price range is $18 to $160 -- with ABBYY costing $150. ABBYY appears to cost $100 from the web site. I am not sure how this is possible as I thought the terms of the App Store required that the cost be the same or less than the cost on linked web pages.
Cheers, Carlo On 2011-04-13, at 12:42, Brian Scott wrote: > > Hi Ray, > > You could look at ABBYY FineReader Express. > > >|http://download.cnet.com/ABBYY-FineReader-Express-Edition/3000-2079_4-75146983.html?tag=mncol;1|< > > Works on Mac OS X 10.4 PPC/Intel/10.5 PPC/Intel/10.6 Intel > > I'm still on OS 10.5.8. > > I've been using it on old newspaper scans and it works quite well, it's the > only OCR program I've used so i can't > compare it another. > > Cheers > Brian > > On 13/04/2011, at 11:35 AM, Ray Forma wrote: > >> >> Do you have any recommendations for text-recognition software that will run >> natively on a 64-bit Intel Mac? If so, please let me know. I need such an >> application to convert standard scanned images to text files. >> >> Currently I have OmniPage SE that came as a freebie when G5s were >> top-of-the-wozza, but am getting ready for MacOS 10.7, which apparently will >> no longer support PowerPC-only applications. Unfortunately, OmniPage SE is a >> Power-PC only application. The current OmniPage website has no information >> about any version of OmniPage for MacOS 10. It seems that they now only >> support Widows. >> >> I do realise that one solution would be to have two disk partitions; one >> with MacOS 10.7, and one with MacOS 10.6, and booting to the older one when >> I want to run legacy applications. However, it would be nice to avoid such >> inefficiency. >> >> Regards, >> >> Ray Forma >> Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> >> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
