Anne,

I have a friend who owns ABBY. I will ask him to play with it a bit to see if 
it can be substituted.

Keith
On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Keith,
> 
> I have both ABBYY FineReader Express and FineReader Pro, neither were in the 
> table when I did Cmd-Shift-o in the Applescript editor. Is there some other 
> way to determine whether an API is available?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
> On 15 Mar 2014, at 19:53, Keith Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Nick,
>> 
>> Depends on if ABBY has included an API for AppleScript. I can't tell you as 
>> I don't own it. I do know that PDFPen uses ABBY for their OCR. At least that 
>> is what I have seen in my Applications folder.
>> 
>> As for the tabs in AppleScript. They are just for readability. Keeps the 
>> different sections of the script straight in my head.
>> 
>> Keith
>> 
>> On Mar 15, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Nicholas Parsons 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Keith,
>>> 
>>> Thanks a bunch for that!
>>> 
>>> Just a couple of questions. First, generally, are the tabs significant in 
>>> Apple Script? I suspect yes but I've never learnt Apple Script so I'm not 
>>> sure.
>>> 
>>> Second, do you have any idea if ABBYY FineReader is scriptable and could it 
>>> thus be used instead of PDFPen in that script? Without any training or 
>>> anything it seems ABBYY FineReader gives me better results generally.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again and all the best,
>>> Nic
>>> 
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