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thinkpad · 01-31-2010, 04:36 PM

I've placed an order for the Opticbook 3600. Can't wait to try it out. Some reader comment on Amazon suggests that it comes with the OmniPage software while others on this thread seems to have gotten the FineReader software.

I want to try out to things. Scan a pocketbook and just turn it into a PDF with no OCR interpretation and one where I scan and run it through the OCR and later convert it to mobipocket. I will place both on the Kindle 2 and compare the result. I'm hoping that the PDF-scan will be readable enough so I don't have to OCR scan and Proof-read which seems to take a lot of time.

01-31-2010, 04:36 PM	#25
thinkpad David Posts: 1,808 Karma: 8916183 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Norway Device: Kindle, E.Edge (sold), Irex Iliad (retired)	I've placed an order for the Opticbook 3600. Can't wait to try it out. Some reader comment on Amazon suggests that it comes with the OmniPage software while others on this thread seems to have gotten the FineReader software. I want to try out to things. Scan a pocketbook and just turn it into a PDF with no OCR interpretation and one where I scan and run it through the OCR and later convert it to mobipocket. I will place both on the Kindle 2 and compare the result. I'm hoping that the PDF-scan will be readable enough so I don't have to OCR scan and Proof-read which seems to take a lot of time.