Hello Esther and everyone,On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Esther wrote: > you may not be able to easily and accessibly complete a > good scan using the purchased software and in addition it may not have > support for your scanner driver, especially if you are using an old > scanner. VueScan fills in the scanning portion, and has excellent > support for old scanner drivers where many OCR programs break down. In fact, even new scanners often don't work with Readiris, or, at least, they don't work for us as the Scan button is not accessible. This is particularly true for Canon scanners. VueScan, however, will recognise most scanners, even without installing the proprietory software that comes with the scanner. In fact, my Canon Lide 700F works better if I steer clear of all the Canon software that came with it.
VueScan also does much better scans than Readiris. VueScan will also perform OCR, but the results are less good than you get from Readiris. Also, VueScan does not take care of page orientation, so, if you're totally blind as I am, you can easily put a document into the scanner upside down and just get nonsense as a result. Readiris handles page orientation which for me is a big plus. I wouldn't advise anyone to get Readiris 12 yet, if they can still find Readiris 11. Readiris 12 has settings that don't stick once you quit the application, and one of these is Page Orientation. Also, there is no longer a shortcut for "Perform OCR". I'm in touch with the developer and hope that this will be fixed in a later update. Cheers, Anne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
