Good OCR text software compatible with 10.8?

Abby Finereader and Adobe Acrobat XI are both really good.


/Jim

 

Try vuescan:

http://www.hamrick.com/ocr.html

Great software (I've used it for years, starting with the PC version) and they have a free trial

 

Hope this helps.....

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4231100?start=0&tstart=0

http://www.wondershare.com/pdf/best-ocr-converter-for-mac-os-x.html

 

Mac version. It ships free with Fujitsu Scansnap S1500M that I bought.

I've also use VueScan... it saved my butt for my negative scanner. It is a fantastic company. I didn't know it had OCR capability... nor have I used OCR using VueScan.

/Jim

 

Is this not built in with the OS? You used to be able to scan to pdf and this would do the OCR of the fly giving you a text PDF rather than an image pdf.

 

I have.....

heard more good things about AbbyReader than about Wondershare, in good conscience....

 

I am on the road now, and cannot easily check for you. I am not sure if it is Abbyy, Acrobat, DevonThink, or my ScanSnap S100M... but someplace I saw a menu option of which languages to support. I only selected english... so I cannot comment on effectiveness.

/Jim

 

Go to System Preferences in the Apple menu in the upper left corner. Open "Language & Text"

Go to "Input Sources" tab and check "Keyboard & Character Viewer." This will put the small flag (shown just to the left of the words Keyboard & Character Viewer) into the menus on the upper right of your computer. (The area with the time/date, spotlight, volume control, wi-fi and bluetooth symbols, etc.)

 

OCRKit anyone? Made for Mac, fast, simple, inexpensive, ...

 

Hi, in my job (I am working at a book with many Latin and Old Greek texts) I have similar needs to the quoted sentence, ie I have to handle many multilingual texts and quote them into my book. A good Ocr would safe my time. Please do figure that most of the time I am allowed just to take a picture with my camera or my iphone in the public library. For my needs is Ocr of Abby really good and better than Readiris?

 

I use ReadIRIS - http://www.irislink.com/c2-2513-188...tware---Scan--convert---manage-documents.aspx

 

ExactScan

I now use ExactScan Pro with my Brother scanner, it does OCR fast into perfect PDFs...