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. 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