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Westside guy

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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!
 
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!

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

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. 😀
 
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.
 
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