OCR 946 Printer

I asked around and some friends suggested the following...

Have the person try installing the XP OCR program for their printer(s) in compatibility mode?

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/bf416877-c83f-4476-a3da-8ec98dcf5f101033.mspx

One trick that tgsmith used with some success is to redirect the XP software installation from its default directory of C:\Program Files to Vista's Public subdirectory. Unfortunately, many XP software installation programs automatically install to the Program Files subdirectory. That's probably the case with the printer OCR program(s) to which you refer.

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In the mean time a free OCR software compatible with Vista

http://softi.co.uk/freeocr.htm

And if you have Microsoft Office installed

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/10/01/Free-OCR-software_3F00_-You-may-already-have-it_2E002E002E00_.aspx

"On accident, mombodog stumbled across Microsoft Office Document Imaging. It's included

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If you lose the CD's that come with the PC, that have the programs, or in the case of many new PC's if you destroy the Dell Recovery Partition on the hard drive (which allows you to restore the PC to the original power up condition and has all the programs) there are no options to get the applications programs.

On the other hand, many of the OCR programs that are supplied with scanners and All in Ones are not that good anyway (supplied by Dell, HP, Epson, etc). Fireberd doesn't look at the Peripherals section as much as he used to, but at one time there were always complaints about the number of errors in documents that were OCR'd with the OCR program that came with the unit. fireberd's stock answer at the time was to buy a better OCR program, but even the high priced commercial OCR programs were not always 100%.

Thanks for the info. I did find the imaging and was using that in Office, but that program you referred works even better!!! thanks!

However I did try the compatibilty mode and that didn't work so well.

Agian thanks for the information!!!!

So you're saying the FREE OCR program works the best, correct?

That is always good to know if someone asks.

Thanks,

Yes that is correct, it worked really well. I tried a couple others and they didn't work so well, but the one you recommnded worked great!

thanks yet again!