[mac4theblind] Re: Scanning Handwritten Materials
- From: John Panarese <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:35:47 -0700
If you are looking to OCR it, you are not going to have the best results
regardless of which application you use. Handwriting is never great for OCR.
Unfortuantely, it has not improved over the years.
If you just need to scan it, use image capture and scan to a PDF.
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John D. Panarese
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On Oct 10, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Leo Bissonnette <leo.bissonnette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been given a journal that is all done in handwriting. I have been
> asked to scan it so that we can send on the scanned images.
>
> Wondering how best to handle this on my Mac.
>
> Am looking at Abbyy Fine Reader and Abbyy Fine Reader Express.
>
> Any suggestions on how best to deal with this process would be appreciated.
>
> Leo
>
> Leo A. Bissonnette, Ph.D.
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