Regarding the hover cam, are there drivers on Mack OS for that? Or did you have to download them somewhere? I have access to a hover cam, but have not tried it on a Mac. Mary
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 10, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Deb, > > Do you know whether it's possible to do multi-page scanning using ABBYY > FineReader Pro with the Hovercam? There was a discussion on this list > earlier this year about scanning alternatives for large volume book reading > requirements, such as in academic programs. This started out with a simple > question about software support for the EyePal after upgrading to Mountain > Lion, and then changed to a general discussion of the effectiveness of > different solutions, given the difficulties finding good flatbed scanners > with well-supported drivers for OCR on the Mac. At the time, there had been > a recent podcast demo of the HoverCam T5-V used with ABBYY FineReader Express > at AppleVis: > • "Using the HoverCam T5-V Document > Scanner and ABBYY FineReader as a > Scanning Solution on the Mac" > http://bit.ly/10jLC8v > > One of the questions that came up was whether it was possible to use the > HoverCam in multi-page scanning mode. In the podcast demo, a way to do that > clearly hadn't been figured out. But one of the differences between the new > Pro version of ABBYY FineReader from the earlier Express version used in the > demo is its support for multi-page scanning action. So I imagine there is > some curiosity about how ABBYY FineReader Pro works with the HoverCam. The > price difference between the HoverCam model used in the podcast demo and the > EyePal was about $300 vs something over 2,000 Euros (but maybe that's only in > Europe, the UK, and Ireland?) > > Here's the link to Dónal's post from that earlier thread after listening to > the podcast: > • Re: Digital camera systems for scanning [was Re: Mountain Lion and Eyepal] > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16660.html > > By the way, a link to the public mail archive for this list appears at the > bottom of each mailed post. I just went to that linked URL: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > Then I typed in the search terms "Hovercam ABBYY multi-page" (without the > quotation marks) into the text box and hit return. The first of the results > is Dónal's post with the link I copied above. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Dec 10, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Deb Lewis wrote: > >> The Pro version is fine with the Hovercam. >> I think the main pro of Docuscan is that the interface is the same in >> Windows and the Mac. But if you’re comfortable with how the Mac natively >> presents things, Fine Reader Pro is a great investment. >> I love DocuScan for reading PdF though. I bought it when there weren’t too >> many good options for the Mac, and I love that you can just pop it open,hit >> a menu option and read. but it’s a lot of money for a little bit of >> convenience. >> >> >> On Dec 10, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie wrote: >> >>> Do you know if the hover cam works with fine reader pro? >>> >>> I did google it, but all I can find is that it works with fine reader >>> express.. but I might not be searching correctly or something like that. >>> >>> Also, can anybody compare abby with docuscan? 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