[X4U] Mac OCR

[Randy B. Singer]

Jim Eddy said:

>My wife needs to scan in some short articles onto a web site for her  
>university classes. I tried to fire up the copy of Omnipage that came  
>with an older scanner, but it seems to be broken now (the software and  
>the scanner). We have a Canon LiDE scanner now that works pretty well.  
>OmniPage now sells for $500. Any suggestions for other OCR programs for  
>OSX -- hopefully for around $100?


The best OCR program for the Mac under OS X is still OmniPage.  Since you 
already have an older version, you are entitled to get the upgrade 
version for a much reduced price.  (In fact, you are entitled to purchase 
the upgrade version of any of these products.)

OmniPage Pro X
http://www.scansoft.com/omnipage/mac/

$130 upgrade version
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=366607

Other choices:

ReadIris ($129 upgrade version)
http://www.irisusa.com/products/readiris/mac/index.html

ABBYY FineReader Pro (Classic Environment only, though I'm told an OS X 
version exists) $130
http://www.abbyyusa.com
http://www.abbyy.com/ocr_products.asp?param=1617

Also check out:
Working Papers Pro ($99)
http://www.dominionsw.com/products.html
(This is a document imaging and management program that has an OS X 
version of Expervision OCR embedded.  This program is an outstanding 
value!)

You may remember Xerox's TextBridge.  That product was purchased by 
Scansoft, and the Macintosh version has been discontinued.


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