Greg, while the below is a neat idea and will work on the cheap, the
more expensive solultion using omnipage pro x does work and rotate a
page if it is not on correctly, both for small rotation errors and
sideways or upside down issues. Since the omnipage can initiate the
scanning and automatically OCR then place the text where one wants it.
it seems to me to be the petter approach. However, without already
having or getting the lite version with the scanner, it does cost about
$400 which can be inhibiting to some folks. I got mine using the lite
version from the scanner and upgrading for $149 or so. they tell me
that they are working on a universal version but I would not hold my
breadth as they have been at it for a long time.
By the way Greg, really appreciate all you have been doing for blind
folks. You have great ideas and come up with great products. thanks,
Vickie Weir
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
