|
Re: Credit to El Bandolero for that Abby FineReader link.
de John Corliss 05/08/2006 04:47
Ron May wrote:
> On Sun, 07 May 2006 03:36:43 -0700, John Corliss
> <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Just want to clarify that I didn't find this link:
>>
>> http://www.ilsoftware.it/articoli.asp?ID=2904
>>
>> It was El Bandolero who mentioned it in the thread with the subject line
>> "OCR program, free?"
>>
>> It occurred to me that this opportunity would be missed because the link
>> was buried in a thread that probably wouldn't be read by several people
>> who frequent this group. That's because the OCR question has been gone
>> over so many times.
>>
>> Once again I want to say though, that if you have no good OCR program,
>> don't miss out on this. In fact, this program is probably better than
>> some of the professional versions of OCR programs that were it's
>> contemporaries at the time. I remember reading a review on it in some
>> computer magazine and the conclusion was that it was far superior to the
>> current (at that time) version of Omnipage Pro.
>
>
> Then thanks to both of you. I followed your tips in the "About that
> free copy of Abby FineReader 4.0" thread and the tip from Ivan V.
> Klattrup on the registration key and had it up and running in no time.
>
> I don't use OCR much, and I have <OT> OmniPage SE </OT> that came
> packaged with a cheap Canon scanner I picked up a couple of years ago,
> but I like to have more than one option whenever possible.
>
> I don't recall hearing about this one before, but it does an excellent
> job! Well worth the download time for anyone with a need for a
> freeware OCR progran.
>
> Thanks John for EVERYTHING you contribute.
You're welcome, Ron and thanks for the kind words.
I've got Omnipage SE myself, but each time I reinstalled it, it required
product activation or I was limited to 25 runs. Now that Omnipage has
gone through new owners, reactivation is no longer possible, so I worked
out a kludge that went around this. In spite of this, the program still
became problematic after a while. Not only that, but it (at least the
version I have) refuses to open existing image files for OCRing. And to
make matters worse, Omnipage deliberately held back the accuracy unless
you bought Omnipage Pro.
This free copy of Abby FineReader was a Godsend IMO.
--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.