if doing ocr, the images get thrscanning photos and the like. own away but the ood thing is that you can save the afterscan image. readiris pro is a scanning interface but if you want images, you are better off using apps especially designed for such activity as ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessi Rathwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 2:38 PM Subject: Re: scanning program for the mac?
cool. so it keeps formatting and all that? good to know. what does it do with graphics? and how about the word recognission? is it good or is there a lot of cleanup afterward? On 27-Jul-08, at 11:27 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > What you have to understand I don't think unfortunately that you can > have it > convert the out to html but you can have it converted to .pdf if I > am not > mistaken. It might also be able to convert to formats which would > allow for > access to tabular data by vo in programs like tables which support it. > about ocr programs for the Mac is that they are not kurzweil and the > programs that you use to read the output of the ocr are not > microsoft word > for windows. That having been said, read iris is vo friendly and > works > quite well. I have not tried directing its output to anything other > than > text edit but from what I can tell, it does a faithful job of > preservation > of what is in the document. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jessi Rathwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 2:07 PM > Subject: Re: scanning program for the mac? > > > exactly. I was wondering about this also. I know there's one called > read iris, but I havent heard much about it as far as features and > stuff. is it good with tables and that kind of thing? I'm thinking for > scanning textbooks as well as pleasure reading books. > On 27-Jul-08, at 10:32 AM, UCLA Bruins Fan wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> Can anyone direct me to some kind of scanning program for the mac? >> I would like to be able to scan in books and read them. Is there >> some kind of program which will let me do this? If so, then I can >> get rid of my windows machine! :) >> Olivia >> >> > > > > >
