Hi,
A better solution than using Google is running a search at the Mail
Archive site for this list. Typing in "ABBYY FineReader trial" into
the search text box for the secondary archive at the Mail Archive page
brought up this link:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg18171.html
I'll paste in a copy of the message, but there's more discussion in
the archives that you can find in other posts in the archive:
<begin excerpt>
Hi James,
ABBYY FineReader Express for the Mac is OCR software like Read Iris,
and is especially good at handling multi-language OCR and support.
Excerpted from the web page:
http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/
"ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is a highly accurate and
easy-to-use multilingual OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software
designed specifically for Mac users. Based on ABBYY’s intelligent
document recognition technologies, FineReader Express for Mac quickly
turns any scanned paper document, PDF files and digital camera images
into editable and searchable formats while keeping the original layout
and formatting intact."
The one caveat is that you must have native drivers for your scanner,
which is not always available for old scanners under Mac OS X if the
manufacturers don't provide this. I just meant that since Josh is
getting a new scanner, it's possible that he can run FineReader on the
Mac side, and not just through Windows.
I've been meaning to post the trial link earlier, but have been
backlogged. (I did manage to send this link to the mac-access link
before they went through their recent upgrade to a new server and
address.) Once again, the 15-day free trial link is:
http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/trial/#
HTH Cheers, Esther
<end excerpt>
On 12 May 2010, at 06:00, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Um,
Have you tried google?
On May 12, 2010, at 11:31 AM, clarence griffin wrote:
where can I find this, can I do a search on the iTunes store?
GF
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On May 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Carolyn wrote:
Hi Clarence:
There are several OCR options. The one that has received the most
positive remarks here is Abby Fine reader. However, I've not yet
gotten that far as to explore it yet. I believe Abby offers a
free trial version.
I'm sure someone else can fill you better, but I know people are
scanning successfully with the Mac.
HTH
Carolyn
On May 12, 2010, at 9:17 AM, clarence griffin wrote:
This topic may have been covered in the past, but is there any
OCR software for the mac? Something like openbook or something
like that? Thanks.
GF
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