I've had good luck in the past with my OmniPage, but when I bought my new computer with XP I lost the ability to scan text completely. I went to the HP site and the OmniPage site for upgraded drivers, but it didn't help any. I'm now only able to scan in .tiff mode and can't do any editing. Windows completely eliminated my use of OCR and just after I had bought OmniPage too!! When I could scan, I found that placing a sheet of white paper behind newsprint gave me the best recognition. I hadn't tried it with magazines. It also worked well with old wills and other documents in my genealogy. But, yes, handwritten documents are best with a graphic scan. Harold Williams [email protected] Give me a sense of humor, Lord, Give me the grace to see a joke, To get some humor out of life, And pass it on to other folk.

The best time to buy software like OmniPage is at the time of a new release. Thought I was saving a few dollars downloading a different OCR program to work with XP but purchased OmniPage 14 upgrade recently by mail. After it arrived, one of the local stores was selling version 12. Try black or grey construction paper behind a thin original if printing shows through a scan. The craft store sells large sheets of thin foam that are large enough for the area of scanner glass. Scanned a set of keepsake items using various colors of towels as background because the lid could not be closed. A few were photographed with an early digital camera. The pattern of great-grandmother's quilt was a bit too large for the scanner glass. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- > I've had good luck in the past with my OmniPage, but when I bought my new > computer with XP I lost the ability to scan text completely. I went to the > HP site and the OmniPage site for upgraded drivers, but it didn't help any. > I'm now only able to scan in .tiff mode and can't do any editing. Windows > completely eliminated my use of OCR and just after I had bought OmniPage

My old Microtek had a BLACK pressure pad . . . it worked great. So when I scan newspaper and other items which tend to show bleed-thru from the opposite side, I place a sheet of black paper behind the text. It tends to reduce the contrast slightly, but there is no problem with the bleed-thru confusing the OCR engine. Carl Sachs [email protected] wrote: > When I could scan, I found that placing a sheet of white paper behind > newsprint gave me the best recognition. I hadn't tried it with magazines.

Could anyone recomend a simple program,that I can create AVI files from analogue video/sound. I do not want to edit or add fancy effects and be able to record for more than 10mins at a time. I am useing the software that came with Hauppage TV card,but that is throwing up errors Nick Ashby Eastcote Middx England

Hi Harold, If you have Microsoft Office you'll find an OCR scanning facility hidden in that. I found it because I was so frustrated with the OCR software that came with my Epson scanner. Otherwise I'm very happy with my Epson 2400 photo which I got mainly for photo and slide scanning. The Epson OCR software couldn't recognise the orientation of the page so you couldn't lay a book on the screen and do both pages but had to place it so the text was the right way up. The Office scanner hidden in Microsoft Office Tools did quite a good job. I've now got hold of Omnipage and prefer that. Cheers, Cathy The At 09:18 8/03/2004 -0600, you wrote: >I've had good luck in the past with my OmniPage, but when I bought my new >computer with XP I lost the ability to scan text completely. I went to the >HP site and the OmniPage site for upgraded drivers, but it didn't help any. >I'm now only able to scan in .tiff mode and can't do any editing. Windows >completely eliminated my use of OCR and just after I had bought OmniPage >too!! >When I could scan, I found that placing a sheet of white paper behind >newsprint gave me the best recognition. I hadn't tried it with magazines. >It also worked well with old wills and other documents in my genealogy. >But, yes, handwritten documents are best with a graphic scan. >Harold Williams >[email protected] > > Give me a sense of humor, Lord, > Give me the grace to see a joke, > To get some humor out of life, > And pass it on to other folk.