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graycyn · 02-22-2012, 06:15 PM

I agree that ABBYY Screenshot Reader does a great job!

However, I would highly suggest that anyone interested in using the Magic Wand for book scanning move up at least to ABBYY Finereader Express, or ABBYY Finereader Pro if you can for the convenience factor, ideally finding a good sale on the latter.

I did OCR a children's book or two with ABBYY Screenshot Reader, but it really goes rather slowly since you have to pull up your image on the screen, make the selection of the area you want to OCR, click to OCR, save the file, lather, rinse, repeat.

At any rate, my Magic Wand is clicking along great over a year after I purchased it!

02-22-2012, 06:15 PM	#21
graycyn Wizard Posts: 1,591 Karma: 11722446 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: NE Oregon Device: Kobo Sage, Pocketbook Era, Kobo Forma, Kindle Oasis 2	I agree that ABBYY Screenshot Reader does a great job! However, I would highly suggest that anyone interested in using the Magic Wand for book scanning move up at least to ABBYY Finereader Express, or ABBYY Finereader Pro if you can for the convenience factor, ideally finding a good sale on the latter. I did OCR a children's book or two with ABBYY Screenshot Reader, but it really goes rather slowly since you have to pull up your image on the screen, make the selection of the area you want to OCR, click to OCR, save the file, lather, rinse, repeat. At any rate, my Magic Wand is clicking along great over a year after I purchased it!