I tried Omni Page once, but the installer wasn't accessible. I
figured that if the installer wasn't even accessible, the other parts
of the program wouldn't be either. It was about a year ago when I
tried it, so maybe there is a new version out.
On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:49 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
DP: can we have more details of where readiris falls down?
SS: I use my scanner primarily for scanning mail. Generally, the
mail I scan is black and white occasionally with a logo or something
on the pages. I also scan received faxes. My experiences have been
that scans performed with Read Iris are nowhere near as good as
those performed with Fine Reader, especially with faxes, or pages
with some graphics. Fine Reader simply ignores the graphics whereas
Read Iris seems to try to decypher them. Read Iris also seems to
have more trouble adapting to font changes within a document i.e. if
sections are highlighted, or are underlined.
I realize no OCR solution is perfect and readily admit there are
documents that Fine Reader gets a bit confused with. Comparitively
speaking, however, Read Iris falls way short in my opinion. I'll
definitely check out Omni page -- I wasn't aware a version existed
for the Mac and at least on the Windows side, its accuracy is better
than what I'm getting out of Read Iris.
HTH,
Steve
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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]>
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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
