Hey Ann, Finally got ABBY to scan for some reason the Twain setting din't scan but when I changed it to the other I got it to scan. I guess I will have to play around with it a little as far as settings to see if I can get things set up to quickly scan and OCR. Thanks again On Jun 14, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Brian, > > You should be able to connect your scanner to your Mac, then launch ABBYY > Finereader and your scanner should show up in the table of sources. Select > your scanner then click the Convert to text button or whichever task you want. > > My Canon Lide 110 shows up twice in the table, once for its twain driver and > the second time with something labelled ICA. Both work. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 14 Jun 2013, at 19:06, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey listers, >> >> I just installed the trial of ABBY Fine REader, and please forgive my >> ignorance on this. I am assuming that I scan my mail the same way using my >> Canoscan and it's software, and when the scan is finished I then open the >> scan in ABBY Fine REader and either choose convert to text document or >> another option? Is this how the software works? Does the OCR some how make >> better use of the recognition than the Canon software. Meaning if something >> comes through garbled in the original Canoscan that ABBY Fine Reader's OCR >> can make sense of it? Just tried a practice document and yes, it was easier >> to read in ABBY fine reader but want to comprehend how it works, and not >> sure if the scan came through ok with Canoscan on this one. I would have >> thought you would use ABBY to scan the document therefore cutting out the >> mistakes Canoscan's poor OCR would make with the initial scan. Thanks. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
