Hi
I also use Omnipage Pro, at least i did under 10.4 Tiger.
Anne Robertson was kind enough to send me a Braille diagram of the
scanning control panel, which was very helpful until I got my head
around what was where, as few of the buttons were labelled.
I have not tried it under 10.5 Leopard yet, as I have had little use
for a scanner at the moment.
I cannot remember how much it retailed for at the time I bought it,
but I think it was quite if not very expensive.
I was also wondering, does the scanner provide the accuracy, or is it
the scanning engine? Do some scanners give better results than others,
or is it down to the user and the techniques they use to scan documents.
With warmest wishes
James
On 28 Jul 2008, at 08:07, Simon Cavendish wrote:
There is Omnipage Pro which I understand is pretty VO friendly but I
haven't tried it yet on account of it being expensive. I'm still
saving for it but Ane Robertson on the list has been using it very
successfully and in multilingual environment too. Its OCR capacity
is apparently very good. Best ishes, Simon
On 28 Jul 2008, at 04:19, Jessi Rathwell wrote:
oh, joy. that's not good news, lol. what recognission engine does
read iris use or does it have its own? too bad they didn't make
fine reader for mac!!!
On 27-Jul-08, at 6:07 PM, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
I've not been impressed with Read Iris. In most cases it works,
but I sure miss the accuracy of Fine Reader under Windows. As far
as I know though, it's the only thing out there.
Steve
On Jul 27, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Jessi Rathwell wrote:
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.
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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
