[X4U] Mac OCR

[Fabian Fang]

On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 09:33PM, Randy B. Singer <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:

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

I recently bought ReadIRIS Pro Version 9 for Mac OS X for $99.99 from Amazon.com, with an IRIS rebate of $75 for a net cost of $25, no sales tax or shipping charge.  It works very well with my CanoScan 3200F scanner.