Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Apps
  • Forum
  • Blog
    • Podcast
    • Guides
    • Hardware & Accessory Reviews
    • Bug Tracker
    • Developer Resources
  • Log in

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Forums
  3. iOS and iPadOS

Scanning Software Suggestions

By MESample, 8 March, 2016

Forum
iOS and iPadOS

Hello,
I would like to buy a scanner and software similar to Openbook. Since I''m assuming Openbook still isn't compatible with the Mac. From what I read, Openbook allows you to fill scan pages and edit them... A DR office form for example. PDF forms found online. I'm looking at ABBYY Fine Reader Pro or DocuScan Plus. Do either of these allow batch scanning or the ability to edit scanned text?

Options

  • Log in or register to post comments

Comments

Hi,

By Justin

6 years 11 months ago

Hi,
I think DocuScan lets you scan the text, convert the text into a certain file and edit the text in that file. Theres also an app for mac called Prismo which does basically the same as docuscan plus. I know prism lets you batch scan files, but I don't know how to do that with DocuScan. For instance, I OCRed a bunch of pdfs with prismo, and I am not sure how to do that with Docuscan plus.
HTH

Fine Reader Pro

By Bingo Little

6 years 11 months ago

I use Fine Reader Pro, though I have used DocuScan in the past. Fine Reader allows you to scan to an MS Word document for example, which you can then edit. I also found recognition to be faster than with DocuScan, and more accurate. If offline recognition is important to you then Fine Reader has that, whereas DocuScan I believe requires you to be online as the server does all the recognising for you. if you're using your Mac on a train with dodgy wifi, or with wifi that many many people are using, for example, this becomes an important factor as your recognition with DocuScan will be very slow. For the avoidance of doubt, Fine Reader is pretty much accessible, apart from the tools which allow you to draw text and scanning areas but to me those aren't important. You can batch scan with Fine Reader too. i read elsewhere on this site that there was an accessibility problem with that process, but there isn't as far as I can tell.

I'm leaning towards fine

By MESample

6 years 11 months ago

In reply to Fine Reader Pro by Bingo Little

I'm leaning towards fine reader pro.

More Like This

Considering a Mac, is Quicken 2015 Accessible? (Forum Topic)
ABBYY FineReader Express for Mac: general question (Forum Topic)
Prizmo versus Docuscan (Forum Topic)
I used ABBYY's Fine scanner to scan my document. Now what? (Forum Topic)
Changing default app for reading PDFs (Forum Topic)
Open Book for Apple (Forum Topic)
help with pdf documents on mac (Forum Topic)
DocuScan Plus (Mac App Directory)

Site Information

  • About
  • Club AppleVis
  • FAQ
  • Contact

Unless stated otherwise, all content is copyright AppleVis. All rights reserved. © 2023 | Accessibility | Terms | Privacy