Just want to add, that I use Office 2003 Document Imaging. Any scanned PDF can be sent to Office Doc Imaging Printer and then using the program can be converted to text in Word. Also in case of large docs I select Page Range in the Printer screen e.g. 1 to 10 pages only.
Not sure about Office 2007. The OCR quality is certainly not the best. Jitendra ________________________________ From: Gary King [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:05 AM To: [email protected]; GW-Info Subject: Onscreen OCR How can we get access to secure PDF documents that are just images of pages, or programs that have controls with graphical text labels, or perhaps even the actual titles on DVDs? I guess these frustrations are responsible for a wish that I've heard from time to time on various lists that OCR could be incorporated into a screen reader. I always thought this was just wishful thinking until I heard the June 23, 2009, edition of Innovations. You can hear the program by going to The Global Voice at www.theglobalvoice.info<http://www.theglobalvoice.info> and visiting the Program Gallery. The last interview on this edition of Innovations was with a representative from Baum, a company in Germany which manufactures the Cobra screen reader. I found the most interesting feature of Cobra to be it's onscreen OCR capability. Pressing a key combination will take a screenshot of graphical text and pass it along to a dedicated version of the FineReader OCR engine, where text recognition takes place. You can then read one of those secure PDF documents with images of text or interact with a program whose controls with graphical text have now been identified. Nothing was mentioned about titles on DVD menus, but if they are displayed in a font that FineReader can recognize, then you should be able to access them as well. If onscreen OCR works well in practice, the question now is: Which screen reader company, GW Micro or Freedom Scientific, will be next to offer their users this new innovation in screen reading technology? Gary King mailto:[email protected] If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
