It's really funny that this subject should come up now because I was gonna ask about it. I didn't get to install XP but will soon and I'm still considering whether or not I should install Kurzweil or Cicero, so that I can use the Mac for scanning and have everything save here instead of having to go to the desktop. I would then send the documents through e-mail and pick them up with Leopard, but if there's something that actually works well with VoiceOver, that would eliminate the need for this. I don't need anything fancy, just txt or rtf output. That said, can I view the work as I'm scanning it or do I need to stop each time and either save it or paste it into Text Edit? Will it recognise Greek or do I need to install Cicero for that? Oops. I just remembered I'd need to use Windows to read that anyway!
On 7/27/08, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> >> > > > > > >
