Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-10 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I think it is worth to mention, that vuescan also can OCR recognize. I have tried it a while ago, and it seems to work, I saw a week ago, that they should have improved OCR recognizion. Best regards Annie. Den Jun 7, 2012 kl. 8:08 PM skrev Gordon Smith: Hi Anne On 7 Jun 2012, at

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Timothy J. Meloy
Read iris is pretty simple to use. There is a good instructions document out there for configuring it to scan and save as RTF documents. I use it to scan mail and it works quite well for the most part. Note that if you have a canon scanner you will also need to obtain a copy of VueScan, for

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Anne Robertson
The simplest and best OCR for Mac is ABBYY FineReader Express. You can get it from the Mac Appstore. Cheers, Anne On 7 Jun 2012, at 12:11, Ian Harrison wrote: Hello to all, can you recommend a simple to use o c r programme for the mac. I have a scanner now and would like to be able to

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I agree with Anne. I have used both Read Iris and Abbyy Fine Reader OCR apps on my iMac and much prefer Abbyy fine reader. To be fair my version of Read Iris is about two years old and it might have improved since then Paul Hopewell On 7 Jun 2012, at 17:09, Anne Robertson wrote:

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Anne I agree with part of your reply. Yes, FineReader is probably the best, but it depends upon which scanner you happen to have. As for the simplest, I'm not quite sure I agree with that bit. :) I submit that DocuScan Plus is probably the simplest, but there are parts of that app which

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread stuart young
Hi Ian, have you tryed A program called docuscann+? this is made by a company called serotek, and it is available in the mac app store. this is very simple to use if you are able to afford it. and works really nice with voiceover as well. Regards. Stuart. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gordon, On 7 Jun 2012, at 18:19, Gordon Smith wrote: I agree with part of your reply. Yes, FineReader is probably the best, but it depends upon which scanner you happen to have. I get round that problem by using VueScan to produce the images. VueScan also does multipage scanning

Re: simple ocr for mac

2012-06-07 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Anne On 7 Jun 2012, at 18:39, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: I get round that problem by using VueScan to produce the images. VueScan also does multipage scanning so the additional expense is worth it. I appreciate that. But it doesn't make it the Simplest solution because you