Abbyy Fine Reader fits this description, and it runs about a hundred dollars 
American, if I remember correctly. The scans are very accurate, and it is the 
best software solution for pdf scans in my experience. I use it to scan jpg 
coupons and flyers a lot, too.

HtH,
Teresa


Slow down; you'll get there faster.

On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Randy George <[email protected]> wrote:

> Back when I was a PC user I had found an electronic document scanning program 
> which was free and which did virtually the same tasks; I wish that I could 
> remember it's name now. lol  It would take a scanned image and run an OCR on 
> it and produce a document which was easily read with a screen reader.  
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion 
> Randy
> On Jan 15, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Steve Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I know this may not be a popular suggestion as it would cost about 3
>> or 4 hundred dollars but I use DocuscanPlus from Sarotech and the Mac
>> App is a free front-end to access the main application.  It can of
>> course, read stuff from a scanner and it can process PDF documents
>> including those that were originally scanned.  It works pretty well.
>> You can then take the saved output and save it to your computer as a
>> rich text file in case you need to edit the contents like in a form.
>> 
>> Hope this helps some.
>> 
>> On 1/15/13, Randy George <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the information; from the install it seemed to be fairly
>>> accessible.  Are there any hints I should know of for Preview?  I'm running
>>> up against the same result when opening the document in this application. :)
>>> Me thinks it is a scanned image.
>>> 
>>> Randy
>>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Preview isn't perfect at this point, but it will at least allow you to
>>>> read text in the documents, whereas Adobe Reader is not accessible with
>>>> Voiceover on the Mac.
>>>> 
>>>> HtH,
>>>> Teresa
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Slow down; you'll get there faster.
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Chris Bruinenberg <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> No adobe reader isn't accessible.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Randy George <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Again,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I just downloaded and installed Adobe Acrobat Reader for IOS 10 Mountain
>>>>>> Lion so that I could read some docs emailed to me pertaining to a job I
>>>>>> need to take care of.  When I open the file in Adobe (I've set it as my
>>>>>> default PDF viewer), all I seem to be able to read when I interact with
>>>>>> the viewer pain is the document name; does this mean that the document
>>>>>> is simply a scanned image that was converted in to a PDF, or is there
>>>>>> some magical command that I need to do yet?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks so much for any help, this group is proving to be most helpful.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Randy
>>>>>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Steve Holmes <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I wouldn't want to turn off pitch changes because then you wouldn't be
>>>>>>> able to identify capital letters.  No way in hell do I want to hear
>>>>>>> "Capital" before every uppercase letter! I've run into that with some
>>>>>>> other systems and I hate it! I'd much rather have a pitch change.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 1/15/13, Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>>>> Is there a way to turn pitch change off? Its quite annoying.
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>> Matt
>>>>>>>> Sent from my mac
>>>>>>>> Twitter: matt692
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 2013-01-14, at 6:24 PM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Ah, that is the disgustingly pitchshifted Samantha. Just record her
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> change the pitch with whatever audio editor you use and you'll at
>>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>>> point come to the sound of that cool voice of yours, unless for're
>>>>>>>>> using
>>>>>>>>> some other voice for text fields, but I'm pretty sure its Samantha
>>>>>>>>> just
>>>>>>>>> pitched down badly. Se, with the compact voices, pitch change is
>>>>>>>>> supported
>>>>>>>>> by the synth, but with premium, they have todo  it with bad audio
>>>>>>>>> pitch
>>>>>>>>> shifting, not like the way they dowith  Aleit and stillusff.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPod with iCloud
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 14 Jan 2013, at 5:51 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> OK, I just had something kind of weird happen, but I'd love! to know
>>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>>> voice it is that is doing this, as I love it!  I switched my voice
>>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>> mountain Lion over to Samantha.  I used to have it on Alex.  Now,
>>>>>>>>> I'm
>>>>>>>>> finding something interesting.  If I go into contacts, then go to
>>>>>>>>> create
>>>>>>>>> another contact card, as I'm vo+right arrowing through the contact
>>>>>>>>> detail
>>>>>>>>> fields, yes, Samantha is reading things, but I'm finding that as it
>>>>>>>>> hits
>>>>>>>>> different fields like first name last name, etc. there is a male
>>>>>>>>> voice
>>>>>>>>> which is speaking.  It's not Alex, and it doesn't really sound like
>>>>>>>>> Fred
>>>>>>>>> either. I'm wonderring who it is, as that voice is incredible!  I
>>>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>>>> have any extra voices installed.  This is an o s x thing, so, it's
>>>>>>>>> whatever that male voice is by default.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I really wanna know though as he is really! good.  I remember
>>>>>>>>> another
>>>>>>>>> friend after switching to Samantha having this same thing happen,
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> really really liking it.  He said he thought it was Samantha but at
>>>>>>>>> an
>>>>>>>>> extremely! lower pitch.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Chris Gilland.
>>>>>>>>> Founder of CLG Productions
>>>>>>>>> http://www.clgproductions.com
>>>>>>>>> E-mail: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>> Phone: 803-760-7136
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