Hello group, I don't post here often but I noticed a thread involving a "good OCR scanner for reading scanned documents". I've been a Jaws user since the mid-eighties and I don't know much about Apple IOS and any programs which operate on it. However, I can recommend Open Book without reservation. I work for the state of Pennsylvania and scanned documents are everywhere. Adobe, by itself, just won't allow Jaws to read one of those documents. A Freedom Scientific rep provided the best explanation. A scanned document is actually a type of photographic image. Jaws doesn't read graphic images like that. If you have a graphic representation which appears regularly on a web site or in a piece of software, you can certainly "tag" that graphic and many Jaws users do exactly that. However, a multi-page scanned graphic is something entirely different. For the record, the material is actually there. A sighted user can read the document clearly but Jaws doesn't interact with it at all. You can safely ignore the Jaws warning about an "empty document".
Now, if you take that same document and import it into Open Book, the document can be read, edited and even saved in various formats. It doesn't matter whether you are using a camera like Pearl or a flat-bed scanner. Open Book will definitely read the document. There may be other programs which do the same thing but none of them I have found, do better than Open Book. Here's why. Open Book has its own speech drivers which can be set up in any way you need. You can edit or correct a scanned document and save the results immediately. There are other software packages which will scan and read an imaged document but none work as smoothly with Jaws as Open Book does. ( Grin) The preceding announcement was brought to you by the VFO Group. Yeah, I know it sounds like a commercial but I have no idea where we would be without Open Book and that, my friends, is the bottom line. JOHN AND LINDA JUSTICE WITH GUIDE DOGS EDWIN AND CALYPSOE PERSONAL E-MAIL: [email protected] --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
