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Originally Posted by kjk
Just curious, CommonReader, fjtorres, and Elfwreck-have you all made serious attempts to replace your laptops with an iPad?
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Is there a FineReader app for the iPad? If not, I'm not interested.
In addition to FineReader for OCR, I regularly use Acrobat Pro, Word & Excel 2003 (could switch for Open Office or similar, and possibly something as simple as AbiWord, if that's available), Photoshop, and PixEdit. I often have four or more of those open at the same time. I have no use for a computer that can't support all of those or close equivalents.
I don't doubt the iPad has some good business uses. A lot of good business uses--in the same way that an email program alone has a lot of good business uses.
Tablets don't, at this time, support advanced document creation & management, and don't support business accounts management (Peoplesoft & similar programs); they allow media consumption & easy communication, not production work.
Are there authors writing novels on their iPads? Lawyers drafting trial briefs on them? Accountants tracking sales records & issuing invoices? Video technicians editing animation, clipping in stills, and managing sound to create a marketable track? Can you use an iPad to convert from mobi to epub-with-dropcaps?
From what I've heard, I'm not even sure you can copy text out of a PDF and paste it into an email.