Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-14 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Anne. I like that finereader pro simply splits the pages. That sometimes is of great value to me. Finereader express does not do it the same way, you are correct for the most it is correct enough, but I have seen finereader mix pages up, but for me worse is that I can not get finereader

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Annie, FineReader Express has never got double pages in the wrong order for me. In VueScan, if the correct information is present, the About window will say OK for each field. Cheers, Anne On 14 Jul 2013, at 22:14, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anne. I

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-13 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. if you do, can you please post the results to the list? Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 12/07/2013, at 2:50 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Ed, VueScan can do OCR but it isn't as good as ABBYY FineReader. If all you need is to read printed

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-13 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello, Here are two examples of OCR. They are both done from the same scanned image. The first was scanned By VueScan which then did the OCR. The second used the same scan, but it was processed by ABBYY FineReader. Notice that VueScan has treated the double page as just one page thereby

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I have the combination of fine reader and VueScan. I tried doing the OCR with ViewScan by itself, and I didn't like it. I'm doing English scanning. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gigi, I'm not looking for

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Jamie Pauls
Have you taken a look at dock you scam plus? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:55 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there I have the combination of fine reader and VueScan. I tried doing the OCR with ViewScan by itself, and I didn't like it. I'm doing English scanning.

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. Yesterday or the day before, there was an update to prizmo for mac. There are some VoiceOver improvements and some improvements with scanners and scan and recognize multiple pages. I have not had the time for testing it out. But maybe there will be something useable in the near future. I

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Annie, I tested Prizmo for Mac quite recently and the OCR results were dreadful! I don't know what your problem is with ABBYY FineReader for Mac as it produces really good results for me in both English and French. Although I must admit, the results are less good when I use FineReader to

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Anne. Ok this is interesting. I recognized a cookbook with prizmo some time ago, and it was quite good 1/2 where correct an so on, that will not happen with finereader. I contacted prizmo a while back, and they will allow a3 scanning on the mac in a future release. I am not getting quite

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Annie, When you say that ABBYY FineReader doesn't handle double-sided pages, do you mean that it mixes up the order? I scan the left and right sides at the same time, and it always gets them right. However, I don't use FineReader to do the scanning, I use the paid version of VueScan

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-11 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Ed I guess it depends on what you need to do. I have VueScan together with Abby Fine Reader. That works fine for me. There is one that I have seen that, if I needed to tons of scanning, I would consider. I saw it once, and I was impressed. HOwever, it's expensive. It is called iPal and it

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-11 Thread Edward Green
Hi Gigi, I'm not looking for something like Ipal, a commercial app is fine for my needs. Do you have a preference over Bootscan or Abbyy Fine Reader? I've used Abbyy in the past under Windows. Thanks, Ed On 11 Jul 2013, at 21:39, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi Ed I guess it

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ed, Many of us use a combination of VueScan and ABBYY FineReader because it's easier to scan multiple pages with VueScan then pass the file containing multiple images to FineReader for the OCR. ABBYY FineReader is available in the Appstore and will work directly with a scanner, but

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-11 Thread Edward Green
Hi Anne, Is it possible to perform the OCR using vuescan or do you also need Fine Reader? Thanks, Ed On 11 Jul 2013, at 21:51, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Ed, Many of us use a combination of VueScan and ABBYY FineReader because it's easier to scan multiple pages with

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ed, VueScan can do OCR but it isn't as good as ABBYY FineReader. If all you need is to read printed mail, then VueScan will probably work for you. I must admit, I haven't tried it in English for a long time, but I do know that in French, VueScan is horrible. If I have time, I'll give