Hi Greg. I'm curious. How did you find the ocr provided by the
software that came with the scanner? Wwre there lots of mistakes or
was it comparable to other ocr software? Have you tried scanning a
book like a novel or anything, how did you find it worked.
Holly
On Sep 26, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
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
