You may recall a few months ago I mentioned that I had purchased the expensive OmniPage Pro by ScanSoft, the only OCR program native to OS X, and that it was not compatible with the Twain software that drives the Epson Perfection and other Epson scanners.
Wellllllllllllll. . . I finally received an update CD from ScanSoft that actually works! You can scan documents and run the OCR in one step. The OCR is quite good and you can "teach" it, too, although I have not tried that feature yet. The manual is very sketchy and incomplete, but it's not too difficult to figure out what you need to do. So, if you need OCR software, and you want to run it in OS X, this is the only good option; however, be sure you have the very latest release so you don't have to go through their technical support people (that ask for your credit card number before they will speak to you even though you just bought their defective product--ultimately, I was not charged.) By the way, the Epson Twain software is itself rather crude and is still in beta even though the scanner line has been on the market for, what, two years. Rather pathetic for such a volume seller. There are some anomalies, such as being unable to quit the program without clicking on the red button to close the main window. Even so, it usually gets the job done, and that's what counts. Over and out. Robert | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
