This is because, while Read Iris' recognition is excellent, it's
scanning abilities are pathetic. It only has the ability to open the
twain source dialog for your scanner, in Canon's case this means
scangear. I don't know how scangear was coded, but it's one of the
most unfriendly programs I've seen even though you can see just about
everything on the screen. You can see the info, but you can't see any
of the buttons.
I don't know of a way around Scangear's issues, but I use Vuescan to
overcome this problem. It has the ability to bypass the twain source
and then pass the image along to read iris, as if you'd done the
scanning from within Iris itself. Using the two of them together works
great for me, the only issue for you might be that Vuescan isn't free.
Perhaps there are other image scanning programs out there that are
free and will bypass the twain interface, but I'm not sure.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 01:00, Tim Grady wrote:
I have a problem getting the scangear driver to pass on the info to
the recognition part of readiris. If I open up a .pdf file the
recognition works, but if I scan a document with my 5600f nothing is
recognized. Does anyone know what options need to be set in the
driver so that output from the scanner driver gets passed as input
to readiris?
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