Three PPC-only apps that I was afraid of losing if I should upgrade to MacOS 10.7 (Lion) were OmniPage, an optical character reader program, Barcode Generator, a program that created barcodes when you typed in the barcode number, and Spyder 2, the app that drives my screen colour-calibrator. I have found that I can do without the first two, but Spyder 2 is still a problem.
For OCR I will use VueScan 9.0.50, <http://www.hamrick.com> which I have used versions of for scanning since August 2003. This powerful program has suffered from a lack of a decent manual till last month, when 'The VueScan Bible' by Sascha Steinhoff finally became available. This book finally allowed me to work out how to get VueScan to do OCR, besides all of the high-level scanning that I had been using. I can now scan documents to PDF, and have editable text overlying the text in the scan, and I can get a Rich Text Format file of the text in any scanned document. VueScan will also extract editable text from existing images of documents. I am now using both features to do any OCR that I have to do. so far I am very happy with the results. The current version of VueScan is 64 as well as 32-bit Intel capable and the Pro version is probably the best value for money app that I have ever bought. For barcodes I have found several websites that will generate barcodes in editable vector format for me free of charge. That solves the barcode problem. The remaining problem is Spyder 2. Does anyone know if there is a Lion-compatible app that will allow me to continue using my Spyder 2 screen colour-calibrator? If not I will have to fork out for a new screen calibrator. Does anyone have any recommendations? Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
