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From: commiebastard on 19 Jun 2010 22:18
For scanning documents etc...?

Free is preferable, but I'll settle for cheap.
From: Wes Groleau on 20 Jun 2010 00:47
On 06-19-2010 22:18, commiebastard wrote:
> For scanning documents etc...?
> Free is preferable, but I'll settle for cheap.

I'm sorry to say that I save them as tiff,
convert them with Microsoft Office on Windows,
then bring the text back to the Mac.

Or I read them aloud into ViaVoice.

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Wes Groleau

Words of the Wild Wes
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From: Malcolm on 20 Jun 2010 01:12
On 2010-06-19 22:18:40 -0400, commiebastard said:

> For scanning documents etc...?
>
> Free is preferable, but I'll settle for cheap.

Readiris
<http://www.irislink.com/c2-1685-17/Readiris-12-for-Mac.aspx>

VueScan It can scan and do OCR (from a scanner or a TIFF file).
<http://www.hamrick.com/>

From: Andy Hewitt on 20 Jun 2010 04:05
Malcolm <malcolm(a)invalid> wrote:

> On 2010-06-19 22:18:40 -0400, commiebastard said:
>
> > For scanning documents etc...?
> >
> > Free is preferable, but I'll settle for cheap.
>
> Readiris
> <http://www.irislink.com/c2-1685-17/Readiris-12-for-Mac.aspx>
>
> VueScan It can scan and do OCR (from a scanner or a TIFF file).
> <http://www.hamrick.com/>

The Vuescan one is pretty good, especially if you scan a document
directly. You get a very quick job, preview, select, scan, and you end
up with an RTF document immediately. It's pretty reliable IME.

I have Readiris here, which works OK, but does miss a few more words
that Vuescan picks up.

There's no free options that I know of, unless there's something in one
of the 'ports' collections (MacPorts or Fink), or you could try a
VirtualBox+Linux install and see if there's anything there (might not
get the scanner to work though, VirtualBox isn't brilliant at USB
stuff).

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 20 Jun 2010 07:09

commiebastard wrote:
> For scanning documents etc...?
>
> Free is preferable, but I'll settle for cheap.

For me there only are two applictations that will be resonable on a Mac
ReadIris Pro (commercial product)
http://www.irislink.com/c2-646-189/I-R-I-S----OCR-software-and-Document-Management-solutions.aspx

It's fast and reliable, but it isn't a cheap program. Sometimes when
they are having campagns you might be lucky to get it for $79USd -
$99USd....

But if you have an old CD from a HP PSC all-in-one
printyer/scanner/copier, ReadIris is included for free. If you should
have a series 10xx, 11xx, 12xx or 15xx, it's ReadIris 7.x, which works
fine even on OS X 10.5.x, - if you have a PSC 15xx(fx. 1521, 1523 etc.),
17xx, 20xx, 21xx, 22xx, 23xx, 24xx or 25xx, ReadIris 9.x is included.
This ver. also should work on OS X 10.6.x according to some people here.

NOTE. ReadIris 7.x is a 'dual' carbon app that can be installed on both
OS 9.1+ and OS X. This means that if you're running Tiger + classic
envirement, you donot need to re-install it again on the OS X partition,
but just drag the app icon to the dock, and it will launch directly
creating a set of Os X prefs files.

The other program is 'ABBYY FineReader' which now is back again for the
Mac. Years ago FineReader was about the best document OCR app at all.
Years ago I switched from the OmniPage Pro to FineReader and was very
satisfied of it's better reliability. Reviews on the new versions tell
the same story - FineReader is back in full strength.

There are more versions of FineReader - some basic, some more enhanced...
http://www.abbyyusa.com/finereader/express/mac

Cheers, Erik Richard

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OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org
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