no no Gordon it is a Mac app but it's dependencies are X11.  It's a mac 
installer, everything.  Sorry for the confusion.  There is also a windows 
version. This is just a very bad port to OSX.
On 20 Jul 2012, at 15:13, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Donal
> 
> Yes, this would be better on Techno-Chat. :)
> 
> Interesting, I wonder whether the competition might be better.  I believe 
> that Sight and Sound is a reseller in the UK, along with a certain other 
> company whom I shall not mention for reasons of personal preference. :)  I 
> forget the name of the thing but people have said it works under OS X fine 
> because it isn't locked to any specific software application.
> 
> But you're correct.  If it's a Windows app it's better not discussed here but 
> I just wonder whether those complaining about it have bothered to try it 
> under virtualisation, using something like Fusion?  Seems by far the simplest 
> way to do it from my point of view.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> On 20 Jul 2012, at 14:53, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Oh it's a mac app all right Gordon.
> 
> Essentially Humanware have this product which they sell predominently on 
> windows.  It's an OCR app based on a camera mounted on a metal frame.  The 
> devs have ported (in inverted commas) to mac by using X11 and Wine.
> 
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