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Ed Hamrick recently added an OCR feature to VueScan. It works fine with OS 10.4.2 on my G4 with my unsupported (by UMAX) Astra 2400 scanner

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/7610

He has a demo version and more information than above at:
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html

Respectfully, Norm

Just to complete the vision on OS X-native OCR software, the full version of Acrobat (not the free reader) includes an OCR-option since version 6 inclusive.

And it is indeed astonishing that the editors you'd count among the "usual suspects" don't have up to date offers here, so unless I missed something there's VueScan and Acrobat, end of story.

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Originally Posted by derekhed

A 53 Mb download and it uses a CLASSIC installer?!?!? :eek: Ahhhh! Can you tell me if only the installer needs Classic, or the entire app is as well....?

I'm using "ABBYY FineReader 5 Sprint" and it starts up in OS 10. I don't know about the installer, I had it on a disk with my printer and it ran in OS X. That was almost two years ago though.

Omnipage 10 SE came bundled with my Canon scanner and it works fine in OSX (not classic). It's quite fast too...not that I've used it much, but I'm pretty happy with it.

I thought I'd resurrect this thread again to add my 2c worth.

I use Omnipage Pro X on two G4 towers, both with Epson Perfection 4870 Photo scanners. On G4 has a Sonic 1.4GHz CPU upgrade and runs 10.3.9. The other is a dual 1GHz running OS 10.4.6. I had no problems installing and running the software.

Accuracy ain't bad but it drives me crazy by highlighting dozens of perfectly correct words in green. I have to go through each one "ignore", "ignore" just to catch the very occasional mistake. Why isn't there an option "ignore suspect words if found in dictionary"? Also, which can't it learn that words like "thcn" should be "then"? And surely it's obvious that two "curly apostrophes" must actually be a "double curly quote". And, finally, why does it insist on changing a comma to an apostrophe? Has it no sense of spacial relationship?

It's a brilliant piece of software that's spoilt by its inability to ignore words that are 99.9999% certain to be correct and its inability to figure out that, for example, "cach" must really be "each". And it has serious problems with capital "W".