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Originally Posted by ascherjim
A good many scanners these days come with free OCR software, OmniPage and FineReader (my preference) among them. I therefore assume that yours did not. Another thread in this forum though discusses at some length use of the OmniPage (vis a vis the FineReader). You might want to check it out.
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My scanner is an old one I inherited from my dad, it's suppose to have an OCR but it's not compatible with my laptop (please don't ask why, I have no bleepin' idea).
Thank you very much for the link, it now makes it clear that I'm in for a ride!
I'm the kind of person that calls technical support when the tv doesn't work because the power bar it's plugged in is turned off (
). OmniPage seems to be the least intuitive software available (
- bis), but I tried to download a trial version of Abby FineReader yesterday and it didn't work.
I have two weeks to learn how OP works without losing my mind, then we'll see!
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Originally Posted by kazbates
VCat, when I get back from the CES I'll post the hoops I had to jump through to get to the final ebook version of the book I scanned. The Omnipage software that came with my scanner was confusing so we did upgrade to OP17 but with the Standard version as opposed to the full-blown Professional version. It works very well but I know I need to do some tweaking to get a better output that requires less editing. It is definitely a learning process. Thank goodness my husband is getting into it just as much as I am. He is much better at digging into the intricacies of the software.
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Indeed!
I can't believe I forgot about your trip to CES - I hope it goes great!
Right now, I managed to scan the first chapter to a PDF file with OP. I tried to treat it through the OCR after, but I can't seem to be able to keep only the text, the big black images are still on, and the document transformed itself in a .opd one that I can't open.
I'm clueless, clueless I tell ya!
