I haven't tried it yet as I don't know where to get it but I believe that Abbey Fine reader Express is accessible for the Mac? Probably worth trying that before wasting money on any offerings from Humanware.
On 23/01/2011, at 11:46 PM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Thank you very much, Erik, for this information. While you mentioned the > ability to scan text and save it as an MP3 file, I really need to have it > saved as an RTF or some other kind of text file. Is this possible? > > Best regards and thanks once again, > > Mike > > On 22,Jan,2011, at 7:39 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> Humanware is reselling the EyePal from ABISee. I have one here to demo to >> clients and plan to add it to my training equipment. >> >> On the videos EyePal seems to be instantaneous. It's not. They obviously >> did some serious editing on those promos. I'd say it's between 10 and 15 >> seconds per capture. Not slouching along by any means, but not what the >> promos claim by a long shot either. >> The EyePal has very nice batch scanning features. It converts text to mp3. >> It's got braille support in a limited way but they are going to remove it, >> since they aren't going to develop it anymore. It comes with scansoft >> voices which I find a shame, but other people will quite like depending on >> your preference. >> >> On the dark side, the documentation is terrible and contains numerous >> grammar errors if not actual spelling mistakes. The braille support is >> about to die. The mac version is basically the windows version running in >> an emulator. The install is buggy, the performance is slightly degraded, >> and it's not integrated with any of the mack features you know and love such >> as the ability to import directly to ITunes, the ability to choose voices >> from your mac speech library, the ability to navigate with the item chooser >> and more. >> >> I have to say, I have very mixed feelings about it. To be fair, my demo >> unit is the old 3 mpx camera. If I buy my own demo unit it will be the 5 >> mpx camera. The price has also come way down. Hopefully it will follow >> here in canada. It's really not worth 2 grand. I'm not even sure it's >> worth $1200 unless you are using the batch scanning features, but it does >> the job in a half-baked round about way. >> >> Best, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> User support consultant, >> Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, >> 1-888-255-5194 >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> >> On 2011-01-22, at 11:52 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: >> >>> Hi. Several months ago, when Humanware's European marketing manager >>> visited me here in Vienna, he told me that the company would soon be >>> introducing an OCR product that would work with the Mac. The user would >>> purchase a tripod/camera that would connect to the Mac through the USB port >>> and pages within a document would be scanned by taking "Snapshots." >>> >>> The scanning process was very fast, at least under Windows, and I was >>> assured that a similar system was almost finished for the Mac. If anyone >>> has tried out the system (I don't even remember what it was called) and >>> would be interested in sharing their impressions, it would be most helpful. >>> >>> My best to all, >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
