Jonathan, The scanner is the Epson GT-S80, which Epson has now upped to the GT-S85. It does an unbelievable job. I had collected 23 years of an investment newsletter a good friend of mine produces. He is a stellar investor and was willing to share his results through his newsletter. Can you imagine the hundreds of pages stacked high as your knee in several piles. What's in them? How did I know what Dave had said about xyz company, did he change his mind, did he put in a buy or sell order at the right time. Who would know?
After getting the Epson scanner I entered all 23 years in the Mac, not a flaw, not a hitch with crystal clear text AND now I could know, anything he had written in the 23 years and this was before Acrobat. As to your second question, I wanted to know just how good PDFPen would do, so I started it and did a scan. I wish our group could see the difference. I used a text sheet and then behind it a double sided advertisement for Epson paper. The PDFPen was so blurry it was hardly recognizable, text was very difficult to read and the advertisement was horrible. After the scan PDFPen popped open a dialogue saying it was applying OCR to the document for searching. Once done I did a few searches. Didn't find a one. I only did something like three but not a single word or couple of words was found. Then I did the same thing using Acrobat. Crystal clear, every word. Did several searches, even using a serial number on one search to see how it would do with numbers and letter together. Nailed every one, not a hitch. This has been my experience with every single search I have tried. Inside the Forbes there is the Editors page and the contents page where the font must be around a 6 point, so tiny my old eyes really have to concentrate. These are the words I have done many of my searches on, the very difficult ones for me to read. Never been a miss. The only thing Acrobat seems to not like are a string of words together but that's where Sonar will rise and shine. Yes, Adobe loves it's products and charges us accordingly but if I am going to go to all this work and expense (I also had to buy a large paper cutter that weighs more than I like to lift to cut the 1/8 inch binding off all the magazines) I must have a product that works and does so without flaw, this is for discovery of info that needs to be known and there is no substitute for accuracy. John On Jan 2, 2013, at 1:57 AM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > On Jan 1, 2013, at 11:33 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So many features that other PDF software will do like, PDF Pen Pro, but you >> also get the OCR!!! > > > Hey, John, thanks for the great review. That sounds awesome! > > I have a couple questions, though: > > 1. Did you try the OCR in PDFPen Pro and find it lacking, or did you not know > it was there? [http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpenPro/compare.html] At 4.5 times > as much, it would have to be a LOT better. > > 2. What scanner did you get? I am looking at getting the Fujitsu, but it is > really expensive (for me) and I would like to hear what others think. > > j. > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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