[Athen] [EXT]Re: Replacing Adobe Pro with FoxIT Pro

[Robert Beach]

Robert,

Are you reviewing your Adobe OCR results with a screen reader or are you reviewing the results visually on the screen? Sometimes, the screen looks like everything went perfect and the text is the same as the original. However, what you see on the screen may be the original image of text and the actual OCR text is behind that. This may be why you feel you are getting good OCR from Adobe. I've personally never gotten good OCR from Adobe.


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Hi Susan, thanks for your reply.  Can you explain more why OCR isn't as good in Adobe as it is in Abbyy?  We have a very old version of Abbyy which is no longer supported, and I would probably have a hard time making the argument to purchase both Abbyy and Adobe, or Abbyy and FoxIT as it may be in the future.  I personally have not found Adobe OCR to be a problem, but I'm sure the volume of OCR work you do exceeds mine so you'd have a better idea.

Robert


On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 1:16 PM Susan Kelmer <Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu<mailto:Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu>> wrote:
If you are using Adobe Pro for OCR, you are missing better functionality that could be had with Abbyy Finereader or Omnipage (we are an Omni shop and I would never count on Adobe Pro for OCR). We only use Adobe Pro for breaking up files or fixing reading order, that sort of thing.  Its ability to OCR is definitely substandard. :(

I cannot speak for the accessibility of FoxIT, so hopefully others have good, solid answers.


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Subject: [Athen] Replacing Adobe Pro with FoxIT Pro

Hi all, our campus is encouraging all units to stop purchasing Adobe Pro, and instead switch to FoxIT Pro.  We primarily use Adobe Pro for OCR  as well as editing book scans and publisher files.  Does anyone here have experience with FoxIT?  How is its accessibility with screen readers?  I understand that the ability of blind people to edit PDFs is limited anyway, but is navigating the program interface accessible?  Can it perform OCR as well as Adobe, and handle all the book editing functions?  Thanks for your responses!

Robert


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