[mac4theblind] Re: Scanning Handwritten Materials
- From: Leo Bissonnette <leo.bissonnette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:48:53 -0400
Hi John,
Understood. Found image capture….
Follow Up question:
Is each page save as a separate image file? Or, is there a way to save all the
pages into a single file?
As always, your help is appreciated.
Leo
On Oct 10, 2014, at 2:35 PM, John Panarese <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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> On Oct 10, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Leo Bissonnette <leo.bissonnette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> 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
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