Hi
Vuescan doesn't need to deal with it, actually. Read Iris is what
deals with OCR tasks, including page orientation. The purpose of
Vuescan in this setup is just to get the image into Read Iris, which
takes over from that point. Vuescan does have a very simple OCR engine
of its own, but its nowhere near the quality of Read Iris and in my
opinion not really worth using.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:11, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Does Vuescan deal automatically with page orientation? It is
important for totally blind people who do not know which way they
insert a page to be scanned. Also, what do people mean when they say
they use Vuescan to scan and Readiris for character recognition? Is
it complex to integrate the two?
I have an old Epson 1200U scanner and Canoscan 1200U. Do I need
drivers for them for Mac? On the Windows side, I would use the two
scanners with Kurzweil.
Thanks for any info you can share. Best wishes, Simon
On 9 Dec 2008, at 12:14, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi Krister
I have VueScan Pro, but the standard addition will work just as
well. The big difference between the two is that Pro gives free
upgrades forever, whereas standard only gives free upgrades in the
first year. There may be a few advanced image processing features
in Pro that Standard doesn't have, but for OCR you only need basic
scanning functions anyway. I'll see if I can find any free scanning
solutions that will serve just as well.
I didn't mind the scanning dialog with my Epson scanner, but with
my Canon Lide 600F it's appauling. The dialog has no keyboard
support at all and, though all the options are visible to
Voiceover, none of the buttons are. So, I can set the options to my
heart's content, but can't scan a thing no matter what. This is in
contrast to the older versions of Scangear, where at least the scan
button was useable. Interestingly, the new versions of Scangear can
supposedly remember your defaults and not pop up the window again,
but since I can't perform a scan and save the options anyway that
does me no good. I have my doubts as to whether this option even
works, as manually editing the plist values associated with it had
no effect, and I'm absolutely certain I'm changing them properly,
and I'm definitely editing the correct plist file. I basically gave
up and used VueScan which I'd actually bought a few years back to
use with another difficult scanner. Turned out to be a worthwhile
investment, that's for sure.
If I find any free scanning solutions I'll post them.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 07:06, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
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Hi Will,
On, at [GMT] (which was 12:13 where I live) you
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WL> so if i set it once will it stop popping up and i can scan any
WL> document i wish?
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Nope, sorry, but that dialog will keep popping up on you. I
personally have no problems with that, probably because i can't
afford buying Vuescan and besides i don't know if i should buy
vuescan or vuescan pro.
/Krister
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