VAT), but real "cost" would then be quite a lot of fuss re "handling"?)ĪBBYY - ABBYY FineReader 14 Standard allows you to process 1-page scans, PDF documents, and images that store on your computer at once. It's tempting to get good OCR for a little more than 100$ (incl. (If multiple scans of the same kind all go into the same document, that could do, it's OCR after all, not a dedicated scan tool, but that should be possible in a way at least an external macro tool could simply press a key every "n" seconds then. Time for some info by Abbyy staff, I could be well too pessimistic at this point in time!
So for functional use, upgrading is perhaps necessary, then and also some other program to trigger the scans the scan function isn't that well described, as far as I'm concerned it does not seem possible to me to trigger a scan every "n" seconds or so, which then would automatically saved in some folder, from which then it does the OCR later on - even with the "Corporate" version, the "do a scan every n seconds" function seems to be missing.
Thus, the complete price would be of interest: 80 for "Standard" here, plus immediate Upgrade to "Corporate" = how much? but probably, "Standard" isn't that "functional" (= euphemism for "crippled too much"). That seems to be a pity, the OCR functionality seeming to be very good, judging from web info. (.)" - so all this seems ABSENT from "Standard". You can organize your tasks in the Automated Tasks. In ABBYY FineReader, you can use built-in and custom automated tasks to process your documents.
Here they say, "Automating document processing with ABBYY FineReader - (Not available in some versions of ABBYY FineReader 14. tiff or pdf) would be 1-by-1 only, which would be a nightmare - probably you could use some external macro tool in order to process these, more or less reliably if button-clicking within the program is involved. Here they speak of that "Corporate"-only "Hot Folder", which seems to indicate that even the processing of many similar scans (1-page, same output format, e.g. That covers 2) and 3).įor 4), what premium platinum pro corporate versions do on top of that is to automatically detect and pick up files in predefined locations, assemble documents from them and process them in a predefined way and save the results in a predefined format and location. What you can always do in all such applications is open an "Open" dialog, select a number of image and PDF files from a file system directory and import the selected files into your document (once there you may have to reorder them).
The key question, I guess, is how you assemble the multi-page document. where OmniPage manages them as one (somewhat brittle) container file, FineReader (12) as a pile of (more robust) separate page files. For 2) to 4): such applications operate on multi-page documents.
I'm not sure if it helps, but if it does, feel free to share what answers you found.įrom my experience with FineReader 12 Pro and Nuance OmniPage Ultimate, I can make an educated guess, though.
Styrobrain User: Until (and if) Abbyy answers, you might want to check the manual on for how the software is actually operating. (And this should work with a network scanner, too, since nowadays, even for 1-person offices, the scanner-printer is often connected via a simple network, not by USB anymore.) apart from processing file(s) from folder, could this tool be used to trigger the scans? Thank you!ĮDIT: And I forgot: In this "Standard" version, is there some automatic scanner-processing functionality? I.e. I suppose the "Standard" version cannot batch-process multiple MULTIPLE-page files within 1 folder of course, but many use cases would imply a) ONE multiple-PAGE file, or b) multiple ONE-page files of the same kind and within the same folder, and both use cases should be possible without user interaction in-between, so I'd like to know what are the possible limits in this which I could encounter in case. Sara User For Windows, there is "Standard" (on sale here), and there is "Corporate" (not on sale here) only the latter seems to allow for batch processing? Or asked in other terms, which sort of "minor batch processing" is possible with "Standard"?įor example, 1) if I have a multi-page pdf, I suppose that FR can process all its pages one after the other, with no user interaction in-between? But what if I have multiple separate 1-page scans from my scanner 2) pdf or 3) some image format (which ones are allowed / batch-processed?)?Ĥ) What is the (additional) "Corporate" version's batch processing which can not be done with "Standard"? We've scanned using a variety of antivirus software and can bring you the following results.