[Athen] Abbyy 10

[Heidi Scher]

Thanks for the info, Jon!  We'll keep working with it and see what we can
come up with.  Will pass anything along that we might figure out.

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director
Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
ARKU 104
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
479.575.3646 tdd
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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Pielaet, Jon <jon.pielaet at mso.umt.edu>wrote:


>  Heidi,

>

>

>

> There doesn’t seem to be a quick fix for the ordering issue. The text areas

> are properly re-ordered in plain text mode, but that causes the loss of

> formatting in the exported file. I’m continuing to look for creative ways of

> dealing with this issue.

>

>

>

> One interesting behavior that I have noticed is that ABBYY 10 automatically

> formats page numbers as page number fields (with the page number field code)

> if you’re saving a word file in formatted text mode. I’m wondering if I can

> find a way of either moving these fields automatically or maybe applying

> DAISY styles to them directly.

>

>

>

> Any thoughts, or experiences would be helpful in developing our process

> further,

>

>

>

> Thanks and Good Luck,

>

>

>

> Jon

>

>

>

>

>

> Jon P. Pielaet

>

> Program Assistant for Instructional Materials

>

> Disability Services for Students

>

> Emma B. Lommasson 154

>

> The University of Montana

>

> Missoula, MT 59812

>

>

>

> www.umt.edu/dss/

>

>

>

> 406-243-2243 Voice/Text

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> 406-243-4461 Direct Line

>

> 406-243-5330 Fax

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>

>

> *From:* athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] *On

> Behalf Of *Heidi Scher

> *Sent:* Monday, May 24, 2010 10:48 AM

>

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Abbyy 10

>

>

>

> Jon,

>

> >The retention of styles is perhaps the most important improvement in terms

> of our DAISY production. However, the new version is not all improvements. I

> have some concerns with the way the new ADART II layout system is treating

> page numbers as header or footer text boxes.  Another strange problem is

> that the editor seems to ignore re-ordered areas in formatted text mode now.

> (making it more difficult to move page numbers, and retain styles at the

> same time.)<

>

> So how do you get around the re-ordering issue?  We've just now upgraded to

> 10 and have already run into this problem.

>

> Heidi

>

>

>

> +++++++++++++++

> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC

> Associate Director

> Center for Educational Access

> University of Arkansas

> ARKU 104

> Fayetteville, AR 72701

> 479.575.3104

> 479.575.7445 fax

> 479.575.3646 tdd

> +++++++++++++++

>

>

>  On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Pielaet, Jon <jon.pielaet at mso.umt.edu>

> wrote:

>

> Hi Ron,

>

>

>

> We have just upgraded to ABBYY FineReader 10 this week and I have been

> doing some testing with it. The user interface is largely unchanged.

>

> Major improvements include: Faster operation, Additional Image

> enhancements, (reduce motion blur, reduce ISO noise, and perspective

> adjustment)  Using the scroll-wheel to move between images, (no need to

> ALT+Arrow Key any longer) and greatly improved style retention.

>

>

>

> The retention of styles is perhaps the most important improvement in terms

> of our DAISY production. However, the new version is not all improvements. I

> have some concerns with the way the new ADART II layout system is treating

> page numbers as header or footer text boxes.  Another strange problem is

> that the editor seems to ignore re-ordered areas in formatted text mode now.

> (making it more difficult to move page numbers, and retain styles at the

> same time.)

>

>

>

> Overall I think that it’s a good upgrade,  but it’s going to take me some

> time to learn all of the quarks of the new version. I would recommend

> spending a little bit of time with it before deploying it in a production

> environment.

>

>

>

> Just let me know if you have any specific questions,

>

>

>

> Jon

>

>

>

>

>

> Jon P. Pielaet

>

> Program Assistant for Instructional Materials

>

> Disability Services for Students

>

> Emma B. Lommasson 154

>

> The University of Montana

>

> Missoula, MT 59812

>

>

>

> www.umt.edu/dss/

>

>

>

> 406-243-2243 Voice/Text

>

> 406-243-4461 Direct Line

>

> 406-243-5330 Fax

>

>

>

> *From:* athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] *On

> Behalf Of *Ron Stewart

> *Sent:* Friday, May 21, 2010 11:49 AM

> *To:* 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'

> *Subject:* [Athen] Abbyy 10

>

>

>

> Hi all, can you give me your impressions of Abbyy FineReader 10.

>

>

>

> Ron

>

>

>

>

> *******************************************************************************

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>

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