Let me clear up a few point.
1. This system does not depend on any external OCR software. It run
as the default settings in CanoScan Toolbox X with the exception of
setting the PDF eternal program to Preview or Acrobat Reader.
2. Turning the page in Preview will not work as the OCR is being done
at the point of scanning not in Preview.
3. CanoScan Toolbox X has n option to send scans to other OCR
programs as images. I tried this with ReadIRIS 11 and found that it
added a good many steps to the process and that ReadIRUS was unable
to detect upside down images. I can't say that I would suggest this.
The original approach provides a one button step that will scan, OCR,
open and read the file.
4. You can extract the text with either select all in Preview or Save
text in Adobe Acrobat. But remember this is OCR text it will not be
perfect. What we accept in spoken OCR we would find unacceptable in
text files.
Greg Kearney
