I have used VueScan at various times despite having scanning applications with an Epson TX710W Printer/Scanner.
It is extremely simple to use and not too expensive. I don't think there is an available scanner missing from VueScan's lists although sometimes the name of your scanner may differ from VueScan's names because of different countries. E.g. my Epson printer/scanner is known as Artisan.
You can scan to TIFF or PDF; if the latter then PDFpen Pro will help for OCR and corrections. In PDF Pro you can create multi-page documents by using the 'Input | Multi page' option. You can preview multiple pages, rearrange the order, and then save the pages to a TIFF or PDF file.
It is updated weekly.
Having the paper on the scanner table is essential.
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On 06/05/2011, at 11:56 PM, THDW wrote:
Listers
I am in the process of scanning old books.
I am using a five year old Canon printer scanner and then once the MP Navigator has scanned, I use VelOCRaptor to do the ocr work.
I sometime find that entire pages need revision. I am therefore wondering whether there has been an improvement in scanners for OCR work over the last few years. Or is my problem quite simply I am not getting the text flat enough against the scanner window ?
Would be grateful for any ideas for making text less tedious.
Regards from brianF
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