Hi Scott,
Yes, ABBYY will OCR from a file. I'll paste in part of an off-list
post reply to a question about how to OCR an mailed PDF (image) file,
which outlines how you can do this with ABBYY FineReader:
<begin quote>
What I do in the Quick Tasks window is Navigate (VO-Right Arrow) to
set Get Images From: "File" (pop up button you VO-Space on --
usually set to a specific scanner), and then VO-Right past Document
Language of "English" to the "Convert to Text" button option (first
of the options). Then a dialogue window opens and I navigate to the
PDF document I want. You can use all the usual finder shortcuts for
Command-Shift-H your home directory, Command-Shift-D for desktop,
Command-Shift-O for Documents, etc. You're prompted for where you
want to save the output, and whether you want to open the document
when the OCR is completed.
<end quote>
The downloadable 15-day trial of ABBYY FineReader Express is available
from:
http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/trial/#
Anne's had more experience with scanner software, including ReadIris
(which I think is at version 12), and maybe she can comment.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 21, 2010, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks,
I was curious if anyone has used the most recent subject software.
In particular does it do well with scanning the text out of a tiff,
jpeg, or pdf? I have a network scanner and previously ABBYY did not
work with this type of arrangement. However, I understand it will
perform OCR on files, which would be find for my purposes. There
also was an issue with the software in terms of setting up the
preferences. If this is not the best solution, can someone recommend
one? I did get Readiris with the scanner, but it is 11.0 and only
works with HP scanners. I suspect this version is not only old, but
might be completely inaccessible, so no point in installing junk.
Thanks,
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