From what I understand, both the scanning engine and the scanning software
can contribute to quality increases for scanning. There was one
short-lived 3rd party additional software package that you ran your scan
files through and it tried to correct common mistakes scanners make called
scantune but that's now abandonware and ran if memory serves as a windows
application. Maybe something like scantune might be available for the mac
under a different name. If so, I'd like to know about it since I might be
able to encourage a good friend to get a mac on that basis as well as
voiceover and iTunes.
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, James Austin wrote:
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.
> > > ----- 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
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