Just a question here: Would such a feature as Onscreen OCR give the user a chance of solve captures on webpages? Or, is that a different beast?
Yes, I know of Selowna and Webvisum. But both of these services have had their instabilities lately. I really wish there was a feature directly in WE (or with an app), to solve these challengers. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary King To: GW-Info Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:00 AM Subject: Re: Window-Eyes and OCR All you app writers out there, as you follow Aaron's links to the OCR resources, keep in mind that as you design your app, the results of the on-screen OCR should appear in a window and allow the user to place the mouse pointer on the item to be clicked. The user should also be able to select the part of the screen the OCR will act upon, current control, current window or entire screen. I am very happily discovering the titles of the episodes in my DVD collection with JAWS 13 Beta, rather than just hearing title 1, title 2, etc. I'm sure I'll run into one of those inaccessible setup programs one of these days that I've always just rained curses on in the past. The companies that write these programs should make them accessible, but how many have you persuaded to do so? I almost forgot, if you have ever tried Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin, you probably know that there is no text accessible to a screen reader. I tried Convenient OCR and got results. Unfortunately, since the text is displayed as it appears on the printed page, a page with more than one column is a little hard to read. I can see it being useful to get the spelling of words that the built-in text-to-speech mispronounces though. I hope that on-screen OCR can be implemented for Window-Eyes with a well-designed app. Gary King [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Aaron Smith To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Window-Eyes and OCR On 9/27/2011 3:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: I like the idea of putting it into a script. OCR through scripting could be done today by anyone with some knowledge and some free time. I have one of those, but not the other. <grin> Here are some starting points: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1762565/python-tesseract-ocr-question http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/ http://mjtokelly.blogspot.com/2007/05/pytesser-ocr-for-python.html http://www.ocrtools.com/fi/prdOCRStandard.aspx Aaron -- Aaron Smith Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team. 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
