can we have more details of where readiris falls down? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven M. Sawczyn" <[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 9:07 PM Subject: Re: scanning program for the mac?
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. > ----- 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 >> >> > > > > >
