Good OCR text software compatible with 10.8?

[Iphone4sinwhite]

I recently purchased a Brother ADS 2000 document scanner. The scanner works will but the Presto PageManager 9 software for Mac is terrible. It routinely freezes, spits out garbage, doesn't save documents, or combine scans properly.

What is a good application that will work with this scanner and will allow me to perform OCR text recognition on 50 page scanned documents?

 

[flynz4]

Abby Finereader and Adobe Acrobat XI are both really good.


/Jim

 

[Iphone4sinwhite]

Thanks, both of those titles have a much higher feature set than I'm looking for. Does pdfscanner perform OCR recognition at a similar accuracy level?

 

[jlc1978]

Thanks, both of those titles have a much higher feature set than I'm looking for. Does pdfscanner perform OCR recognition at a similar accuracy level?

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

 

[Iphone4sinwhite]

Abby Finereader and Adobe Acrobat XI are both really good.


/Jim

Have you used the ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac or the Windows version?

 

[phoenixsan]

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

 

[flynz4]

Have you used the ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac or the Windows version?

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

 

[admwright]

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.

 

[Weaselboy]

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.

That is just a scanned image saved as a PDF, but no OCR is performed. You will need to buy an aftermarket app for OCR.

 

[Iphone4sinwhite]

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

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

Is wondershare better at OCR than Abby Finereader?

 

[phoenixsan]

I have.....

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

 

[Iphone4sinwhite]

Abbyy Reader works great!

I'm scanning a lot of engineering documents. Is there anyway I can type Greek letters into the search bar and find them in documents that I have scanned with Abby Reader?

 

[flynz4]

Abbyy Reader works great!

I'm scanning a lot of engineering documents. Is there anyway I can type Greek letters into the search bar and find them in documents that I have scanned with Abby Reader?

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

 

[Iphone4sinwhite]

Figured it out.

Abbyy FineReader can scan english and greek. I can then copy a particular greek letter from wikipedia.

I'm a recent Mac convert; I haven't found an equivalent to character map yet.

 

[MathRulz]

I'm a recent Mac convert; I haven't found an equivalent to character map yet.

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.)

 

[ReneR]

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

 

[Carloo]

Figured it out.

Abbyy FineReader can scan english and greek. I can then copy a particular greek letter .

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?

 

[SpinalTap]

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

 

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I recently purchased a Brother ADS 2000 document scanner. The scanner works will but the Presto PageManager 9 software for Mac is terrible. It routinely freezes, spits out garbage, doesn't save documents, or combine scans properly.

What is a good application that will work with this scanner and will allow me to perform OCR text recognition on 50 page scanned documents?

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