Best OCR Program for Mac That Ive Ever Used

Because I need to constantly scan and OCR a variety of written materials, Ive been working with OCR programs on the Mac from the moment they first appeared. (My first Mac was the MacPlus.) Some of these were sufficient for the task, but none did what they did without causing frustration and sometimes outright anger. Early on there was WordScan, then OmniPage Pro, and more recently, ReadIris Pro, and ABBYY FineReader, all of which I have owned and used, and each of which caused problems unique unto themselves. Prizmo 2 isnt perfect, but I know from the sense of amazement and relief I feel whenever I use it, that I have my foot, at least, in the Promised Land. It deals with difficult jobs (scans of antique books), quirky fonts, and multiple columns with ease. There are problems: it is hit or miss with fractions (the other programs, however, were all miss), it combines words rightly separated by hyphens when these fall at the end of a line (as in finemesh strainer), and there is the occasional loose screw (failing to recognize a quite ordinary word). On the other hand, I recently scanned a text with "Wurstsalat" and "Fleishsalat" and it didnt even blink. To sum up: this program is not does what it is supposed to without struggle, but it eases the soul. Highly recommended. (And take in consideration that this is the first software review Ive ever written in over twenty-five years as an active Mac user.)

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