Re: opening files recognized by read iris in pages

2012-03-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Timothy, ABBYY FineReader interprets one file at a time, so it will accept a file containing multiple images from VueScan, just like ReadIris. When I scan books, I scan a double page at a time and I found that ReadIris could not get the pages in the right order, whereas ABBYY FineReader

Re: opening files recognized by read iris in pages

2012-03-27 Thread Timothy J. Meloy
Ok. I find that I get a lot of unrecognized characters with read iris. Wondering if it's a setting or the OCR as a whole? Do you have that problem with fine reader? On Mar 27, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Timothy, ABBYY FineReader interprets one file

Re: opening files recognized by read iris in pages

2012-03-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Timothy, I always found that ReadIris did a worse job than ABBYY FineReader on the OCR. A lot depends on the quality of the scan, but FineReader is often close to perfect. Did you get a copy of my set up guide for VueScan? If not, I'll send it to you. It's important to get the settings

Re: opening files recognized by read iris in pages

2012-03-27 Thread Timothy J. Meloy
I found a guide but I'm not sure who wrote it. Wonder if I could get a refund for my read iris purchase so I could grab fine reader? On Mar 27, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Timothy, I always found that ReadIris did a worse job than ABBYY FineReader on

Re: opening files recognized by read iris in pages

2012-03-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Pages is not the app for reading PDF, you need to open them with Preview. I'm curious as to why you create PDFs in the first place. It's the worst format for reading on the Mac. Also, why ReadIris? ABBYY FineReader is a much better OCR program. Cheers, Anne On 26 Mar 2012, at 18:40, Timothy

RE: opening files recognized by read iris in pages

2012-03-26 Thread Timothy J. Meloy
recognized by read iris in pages Pages is not the app for reading PDF, you need to open them with Preview. I'm curious as to why you create PDFs in the first place. It's the worst format for reading on the Mac. Also, why ReadIris? ABBYY FineReader is a much better OCR program. Cheers, Anne On 26 Mar