New OCR engine in DTPO 2

[annard]

For all of you who are dying to check out the updated OCR plugin in 2.0pb3r2, please go to the “DEVONthink Pro > Check for Updates…” menu in order to download a much improved version especially with regards to accuracy. At least in our extensive testing over the last week it has shown quite good results. But YMMV.

[CharlesWJ]

@Usable_Thought

@CharlesWJ

I have a networked Canon multi-function machine. Readiris Pro has no difficulty in finding it and doing its stuff. The new ABBY engine does not however find the scanner (though Image Capture does).

What Canon is it? Based on my experience, there might (maybe, possibly) be a possible fix to get ABBY to see it.

It’s a Canon MX850.

@Usable_Thought

One that I tried was VueScan - but VueScan could not see the Canon’s TWAIN driver. I fixed this by using Image Capture > Bowse Devices to set the Canon driver to “Shared.” You might try that and see if it helps ABBY as well.

I went through this with VueScan. Image Capture finds the scanner and operates it OK. But VueScan did not do so even when we tried connecting manually via Image Capture. And I now get the same result with DTPO’s ABBY engine. Readiris however has no such problem and nor does VueScan in its latest release.

Charles

[Bill_DeVille]

Charles, are you saying that the ExactScan Capture option in File > Import doesn’t find your Canon scanner?

If so, please send a message to Support stating that experience with the new ExactScan software included in today’s post, and provide the model of your Canon scanner.

[CharlesWJ]

@Bill_DeVille

Charles, are you saying that the ExactScan Capture option in File > Import doesn’t find your Canon scanner?

I’ve just installed the latest DTPO 2 and Exact Scan. And I humbly withdraw my comments (which were made after trying to use Image Capture). ExactScan finds my networked Canon and scans ‘as advertised’. I haven’t had time to test OCR but have every confidence that it too will be OK too.

Charles

[yoda]

@Bill_DeVille

The ABBYY OCR engine will produce equal or better accuracy, smaller searchable PDFs and recognizes more languages, including Hebrew.

any update with the Hebrew OCR ??

[Bill_DeVille]

No, our license from ABBYY doesn’t include Hebrew, Arabic or Asian languages.

I believe ABBY does have those languages for purchase from them.