Any experience TypeReader OCR from ExperVision?
John C Wenn
ExperVision? The ads in the Mac magazines make it sound great. And the
introductory price sounds wonderful too ($149 for a side-grade).
Thanks for any information,
/John
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Kee Hinckley
: Does anyone have any experience with the new TypeReader OCR program from
: ExperVision? The ads in the Mac magazines make it sound great. And the
: introductory price sounds wonderful too ($149 for a side-grade).
:
: Thanks for any information,
:
: /John
:
: jw...@world.std.com
It's mindblowingly good. I had ReadIt! Pro before and there is just
no comparison. This thing handles faxes very well (faxes sent from
a Mac perfectly). I just did a test scan of a weekly rag (Network
World) with my handscanner and it did great! I've spent long
hours trying to train ReadIt on that particular font. With this I
just swept down the page with the LightningScan, not paying a lot
of attention to either contrast or straightness, saved it as a tiff
file. Pointed TypeReader at it and told it to go. If found all of
the columns, discarded the picture and gave me a text version,
completely formated in columns with italic fonts and bold fonts
all fine. As well as all the fonts scaled to the appropriate sizes.
It missed maybe one space between two italic words and turned a long
dash into a double dash. And it did that all in very reasonable time
on a Mac II (certainly faster than ReadIt). So far my only wish
list items are that it could rotate images and save in multi-column
or pagelayout format. In maintains all of that format, but saving
to MSWord or WriteNow doesn't seem to preserve columns. (In all
fairness, it would be hard, you might need to save to a page layout
program format instead.)
One note. It comes on high-density floppies, so if you have a II
you'll need to ask them to send it on low density as well. Also,
make sure you have disk space. I forget the exact size, but I
think it's around 6 meg.
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