OCR programs for Mac?

Westside guy

macrumors 604

Original poster

• Mar 31, 2004

• #1

Hi,

The subject says it all - I'm looking for an OCR (optical character recognition) scanning program for OS X. Any recommendations?

I'd rather not have to use OmniPage Pro inside of VPC. 😛

Thank you!

 

BenRoethig

macrumors 68030

• Mar 31, 2004

• #2

Westside guy said:

Hi,

The subject says it all - I'm looking for an OCR (optical character recognition) scanning program for OS X. Any recommendations?

I'd rather not have to use OmniPage Pro inside of VPC. 😛

Thank you!

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Readiris Pro. A copy came with my HP PSC2110. I don't know how it stacks up, but it's the only one I know of.

Iris Software

 

bousozoku

Moderator emeritus

• Mar 31, 2004

• #3

There is also a version of OmniPage Pro that works natively in Mac OS X. I received an OCR application with my Epson All-in-One called ABBYY FineReader 5 Sprint Plus.

 

MisterMe

macrumors G4

• Mar 31, 2004

• #4

Westside guy said:

Hi,

The subject says it all - I'm looking for an OCR (optical character recognition) scanning program for OS X. Any recommendations?

I'd rather not have to use OmniPage Pro inside of VPC. 😛

Thank you!

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As bousozoku stated above, OmniPage Pro is MacOS X-native. It is the standard of the industry. IIRC, OmniPage originated on the Mac.

 

Westside guy

macrumors 604

Original poster

• Mar 31, 2004

• #5

MisterMe said:

As bousozoku stated above, OmniPage Pro is MacOS X-native. It is the standard of the industry. IIRC, OmniPage originated on the Mac.

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Actually, the reason I phrased it the way i did was because I already have Omnipage Pro for Windows. Unfortunately it's version 10, so it's not current - otherwise I'd try to do a straight trade. But my intentions were purely platform neutral; no anti-Mac bias was intended. 😀

 

bousozoku

Moderator emeritus

• Mar 31, 2004

• #6

Well, just thinking about this thread, I tried ABBYY FineReader 5 Sprint Plus. It was fairly successful on what it could handle. 😀 Otherwise, it's a POS.

Funny though, the image of the box for the Windows version looks like they copied it directly from the OmniPage Pro box and turned it red. I suppose that could be the Xerox TextBridge box originally, since that's got the same engine as OmniPage Pro and one other product--all from ScanSoft.