DANewmanĪBBYY Finereader Express for Mac (as of July 2011) gives accurate results but is not acceptable for DP projects because it outputs the text from all your input images into one long file. (Except for the one I typed in!) I've had very good results this way. I haven't been satisfied with any of the OCR packages I've tried, and have chosen to use the OCR pool for all my projects. This may be of no help whatsoever, but my feeling has been that every error not made by OCR is one less error that has to be found by a proofer. Be aware that the cheap and free options are particularly error prone. There are several decent OCR packages for Macs. And it was slow enough that the website didn't decide I was a robot :-D I found it fairly slow (as it's downloading them sequentially?) but less effort than doing it by hand in my browser. Platypus Downloader For this you create a text file listing all the URLs you want, or paste them into the program manually, and it downloads them all to a directory you specify.so fast that the website locked me out for a while. :-( LinkSequenceDownloader If the files you want (and/or other bits of their URLs) are named using consecutive numbers, you just specify this as a range, and the program downloads them all to a folder on Desktop.There are free programs that you can use to download multiple files from other sources. Gharvest, for harvesting from Google Print, can run on Mac OS X. (Doesn't matter, cos Sprint was never going to be adequate anyway.) Laurawisewell It comes with a mac version of Abbyy Finereader Sprint, but I suspect that was designed pre-Tiger: I can get it to acquire pages directly from the scanner, but not to open previously saved files. Also I find that if I leave the scanner software open but idle, it guzzles up CPU and make my computer (iMac G5) get very noisy. An irritating feature is that it doesn't remember the directory to save to across sessions-it always defaults to saving in ~Pictures/. Installing and setting up (on OS X 10.4) was easy. Scanners currently used by CPers with macs, together with some mac-specific comments, include: (If you do, you may also want to have the OCR done by a Windows user who has a copy of ABBYY Finereader 8, which is designed to get better OCR out of digital camera images.) See Tips & Tricks for Shooting Text with Digital Camera if you want to try this method. It is also increasingly possible to use digital cameras for image acquisition, and these are generally platform independent, though the image quality is not as good as what can be obtained with a scanner. VueScan, which is shareware, also supports some non-mac scanners, and has a loyal following. Any scanner supported by SANE should work with OS X, provided you are willing to install the right SANE driver. Software can increase your range of options. But there are cheaper places to actually buy one, and a wider choice. (Sadly, the Plustek OpticBook is one that can't.) It's probably a safe bet that the few sold by the Apple Store will work, and the reviews there are mac-specific. Many scanners can be used with macs, although not all.
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