We have an Epson Workforce 840 printer… which has been helpful—it allegedly slices, dices, and makes coffee. But not that well..and occasionally it just really screws up. The only thing it does well is talk to all the computers in the house via the net. It networks well. But—ask it to do other operations…like OCR: sometimes it will and sometimes it won’t.
So we got onto this scanning for records thing—and after struggling with various softwares, recalled —we have Adobe. We have Big Adobe, the real office pro thingie. We turned control of our wonder-printer over to Adobe, and OMG. It BEHAVES. Scans, runs an OCR before I can quite sit down to tee up the next document to scan, and produces a beautiful image; you get to assign a filename, it stores things where you want; it does two-sided copy where needed, it allows you to combine files if you found another piece, and it’s just brilliant! If you have a printer that promised you the sun and moon and it won’t quite deliver—this is one way to get the machine to tap-dance.
I have rarely been so pleasantly surprised with the efficiency of a software with a really monster job.
OT, but this out today. If you want to know where America is going to rank as a world power at the end of the 21st Century, this might be a clue from the Pew Forum poll:
“According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, six-in-ten Americans (60%) say that “humans and other living things have evolved over time,” while a third (33%) reject the idea of evolution, saying that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time. … White evangelical Protestants are particularly likely to believe that humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time. Roughly two-thirds (64%) express this view, as do half of black Protestants (50%). By comparison, only 15% of white mainline Protestants share this opinion. … In 2009, 54% of Republicans and 64% of Democrats said humans have evolved over time, a difference of 10 percentage points. Today, 43% of Republicans and 67% of Democrats say humans have evolved, a 24-point gap.”
I think what’s important here isn’t whether Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is some ultimate truth, but what it tells us about Americans education in sciences and willingness to evaluate and respond to evidence.
There’s more to the story, just click on the dark blue link above.
It would amaze me more if anyone believed that politicians had evolved. Or maybe believed that they were out bred…
I’m not amazed, just sayin’ some people talk about the need for STEM education, but poll Americans and they’ll say they don’t trust Scientists because “They’re always telling us something I don’t believe is true.”
About politicians, wasn’t it Churchill that said, “People get the type of government they deserve.” Better to blame the people who elected them. (“I don’t understand how the world works, so best I vote to stuff it all up.” Meanwhile China’s fixin’ to clean our clocks, while our National politics is “stuffed up”.)
Tommie, hear! hear!
Is anyone watching Alpha House? Or is that cutting too close to discussion of politics? I would just say that I loved Gil John’s speech on the beach Friday. I am not of his persuasion, but he is an honest man, and John Goodman is an astonishing actor.
I didn’t know Abobe Pro had OCR. That sounds awesome. I have Acrobat Pro, but don’t know how to turn control of the printer over to it…
If Adobe (Acrobat in my case) recognizes your printer as a scanner it will take care of it. My Acrobat recognizes our Brother J6710 (or something like that) and will scan docs from the document feeder into Acrobat, but our Fujitsu scanner isn’t recognized over the network. To use it I have to go to the XP computer that’s attached to the Fujitsu scanner, scan the document, then go back to my laptop and retrieve the document off the scan server’s hard drive. Since the Fujitsu is a faster scanner, that’s what I usually do rather than scan directly into Adobe.
“Create Document” “From Scanner” are the menu options to click on.
I shall have to look into Adobe. I too have too much paper, and it’s long past time to do something with it.
On the book front, I’ve moved twice this year. I culled, and culled deeper, and culled down to only the ones that I deeply love, and most of those have author signatures. How could I do this? I made a pact with myself. I can buy any book I want to read — TODAY. Books that look interesting go into my Kindle wish list. So I can reread any book I want, any time I want, on my iPad/iPhone/laptop. But if I move again, the vast majority of my library can go into my backpack. And in the mean time? I never have to dust my library.
Create document gives you several options, one to set whether a document double-sided or not, and if it is, it scans the stack onesided, then asks ‘was that all’ plus a choice including flipping the stack and going from the other direction, after which it collates and lets you see the result. You can store the document as a pdf in whatever directory you’ve indicated. Its OCR is blinding fast compared to some. Literally faster than it was to scan it in the first place. The result is also searchable by Adobe.
The Epson, when told to scan, offers you a choice of every computer on the network, by name; click on the cartouche of same and that’s who it talks to.
That was most peculiar; for the last 2 hours, Google Chrome was unable to find either yours or Jane’s site. Maybe the Net is overloaded with New Year’s greetings flying about?
Same here, same time period.
Might be, jump calc was off a hair?
Curious. I’ve been back and forth, had no troubles at all.
Does it also write Bren Stories?
lol—
re the outage, yes, the host was having hiccups. I wasn’t having trouble because I happened on between hiccups. 😉
Another thing I like about Adobe Acrobat Pro is that you can “Print” almost anything you find as an .html into a .pdf file. For year-end contributions to charity, I make a copy of the receipt page from the organization. That way if the email with the receipt doesn’t make it to my email account I still have a copy saying how much I contributed, to whom, and when. This also works with .html receipts sent to email – it’s easy to save the message as a .pdf The only caveat is that when Adobe upgrades are incorporated, they sometimes gum up the works until a subsequent upgrades occurs, or you reinstall Adobe Acrobat Pro. Pro is much, much more capable than Acrobat Reader.