Hi Chenelle: I just completed a free 15 day trial of Abbyy Fine Reader Express. I'll try to answer your questions: Abbyy worked/performed fairly well, though some odd printing (coloring within a book) gave it a fight.
The process, as I understand it is a little more complicated than using something like Krzweil or Openbook in that as far as I know you have to use something like Image capture to take the scan, and then open that with Abbyy, which again, performed OCR fairly well. My problem was that Image Capture does a double scan, since it first does an "overview", and then a regular scan. So, books would seemingly take a lot more time to do. At least as far as I know. As far as your scanner goes: Epsons tend to work well with the Mac. The Canon portable might work, if you procure the drivers and install them. If you don't have your starter disk and want to try this, you can get the drivers at Driver Collection.com. I got the Canon mp160 to work, but haven't tried the little Lida20. Hope this helps. Carolyn On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Chenelle Hancock wrote: > I wanted to know if bay find reader was accessible with magazine's and hard > back books? also do you have a have a suspific type or scanner in order to > use it?. I have a epson scanner printer that had came with my mb pro. I also > have a portable cannon scanner that hooks up via usb. so would either work > well with bay find reader. furthermore, does bay find reader cost the same as > vm futon??. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
