Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-14 Thread Rob Davies
Acrobat Pro, does a fine job!! On 13Apr2011, at 11:35 am, Ray Forma wrote: Do you have any recommendations for text-recognition software that will run natively on a 64-bit Intel Mac? If so, please let me know. I need such an application to convert standard scanned images to text files.

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-14 Thread Ray Forma
Rob, You're right! This is a semi-hidden feature of Acrobat Pro that I never stumbled across. I have just played with it and it does a superb job. This exercise reminds me to always get to know all of the menu items in new apps. The online help from Adobe about Acrobat OCR is very thin! I

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 14/04/2011, at 5:02 PM, Ray Forma wrote: Rob, You're right! This is a semi-hidden feature of Acrobat Pro that I never stumbled across. I have just played with it and it does a superb job. This exercise reminds me to always get to know all of the menu items in new apps. The

Text-recognition software recommendation #2

2011-04-13 Thread Ray Forma
Thankyou to everyone who has so far sent me advice about Mac Intel OCR software; much appreciated. Since my earlier email I have discovered that my copy of VueScan Professional V 9.0.24 will not just do an excellent job at running my Canoscan scanner, but will also save a text file of any

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 13/04/2011, at 1:33 PM, David Noel wrote: Hi Ray -- -- I have a version of Omnipage SE which came free with my Canon MP140 printer. It seems to run fine with my Intel Core 2 Duo under 10.6.7. If you want more details, contact me off-list. Cheers -- David Noel 2011 Apr 13

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 13/04/2011, at 1:07 PM, cm wrote: Hi Ray, I have only ever used free OCR products that come bundled with scanners so far, so I can't give a personal recommendation, but I read with interest the review that Brian provided of ABBYY Fine Reader Express. I just wanted to point out

Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-12 Thread Ray Forma
Do you have any recommendations for text-recognition software that will run natively on a 64-bit Intel Mac? If so, please let me know. I need such an application to convert standard scanned images to text files. Currently I have OmniPage SE that came as a freebie when G5s were

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Scott
Hi Ray, You could look at ABBYY FineReader Express. |http://download.cnet.com/ABBYY-FineReader-Express-Edition/3000-2079_4-75146983.html?tag=mncol;1 | Works on Mac OS X 10.4 PPC/Intel/10.5 PPC/Intel/10.6 Intel I'm still on OS 10.5.8. I've been using it on old newspaper scans and it works

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-12 Thread cm
Hi Ray, I have only ever used free OCR products that come bundled with scanners so far, so I can't give a personal recommendation, but I read with interest the review that Brian provided of ABBYY Fine Reader Express. I just wanted to point out that if you bring up the Mac App Store and enter

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-12 Thread David Noel
Hi Ray -- -- I have a version of Omnipage SE which came free with my Canon MP140 printer. It seems to run fine with my Intel Core 2 Duo under 10.6.7. If you want more details, contact me off-list. Cheers -- David Noel 2011 Apr 13 = On 13 April 2011 13:07, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: