Olivia, you're definitely right. Heck, you can always buy Read Iris
if something better doesn't come out. Another option, which I use is
to run Windows using VMware Fusion and Fine Reader. That's kind of a
pain to get set up if all you want to do is scan, but as I had windows
set up virtually anyway, it's proven to be a good, all-be-it
inconvenient solution.
Steev
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:40 PM, UCLA Bruins Fan wrote:
I'm inbetween grad school and undergrad at the moment, so I'm thinking
I might wait a year and get what ever scanning software is out there
at that point. You never know, perhaps things will improve or fine
reader will come out with a version for the mac.
A lot can happen with technology in a year!
Olivia
On Jul 27, 2008, at 8:19 PM, 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
