Re: FineReader OCR Pro vs. OCR Kit

2017-02-13 Thread Bill Gallik
Thanks to Ray and Andrew for their posting to this thread. They’ve made a very good case for choosing FineReader! - Bill - "That I have no sight, does not mean I have no vision." - Bill Gallik, Northern Wisconsin Curmudgeon, 1952-20?? (I am NOT delusional)?? -- The following

Re: FineReader OCR Pro vs. OCR Kit

2017-02-13 Thread Andrew Lamanche
I use FineReaderPro a lot, and I feel it's worth the money. You can scan and recognise documents , it has automatic page orientation feature, scans multiple pages, and you can convert to various formats: pdf, dox, rtf, txt, excel, html. It also recognises documents in up to 3 different

Re: FineReader OCR Pro vs. OCR Kit

2017-02-13 Thread Ray Foret jr
I have had some success with Abby Fine Reader in this regard. I’d go ahead and get it because many here use it and find it perfectly satisfactory. As for the other, I reckon you should be able to try it and, if it fails to meet your needs, you could ask Apple for a refund. However, before

FineReader OCR Pro vs. OCR Kit

2017-02-13 Thread Bill Gallik
I’m looking to install an OCR package on my Mac Mini to facilitate scanning paper documents and photocopy generated PDFs. In searching in the MacOS store for “FineReader” I got two results. The first is “FineReader OCR Pro” ($119.95) and “OCR Kit” ($35.95); my question to this list is this;