Hi.
According to Erik on the latest episode of the FSCast podcast, Open book
is still relevant. It gives you the 3 OCR engines in one package for
better accuracy, an easy to use self voiced interface, ability to edit
recognized content and a whole host of extra goodies enabling you to
really do a number on scanning that document or book and making it as
good as possible. It's for more serious occasions where JAWS acquire
image OCR capability is for the casual user who wants to check mail or
quickly read a book etc. You could of course acquire the text of an
image then copy and paste it out of the results viewer into word pad or
something similar and there's your editing capability. HJ Pad for that
matter.
So said, right now it doesn't sound like VFO is interested in
discontinuing Open Book in favor of using that OCR which is included in
JAWS.
Cheers:
Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We
make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com";
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On 8/31/2017 5:58 PM, Blackwell, Clifford wrote:
Does anyone know if with the inclusion of the scanning features in JAWS 2018 if
VFO is intending to end support or development of Open Book? It has been quite
a while since there were any updates/improvements to Open Book and this new
feature set would seem to indicate a lack of interest in maintaining Open Book
as a separate product line.
If that is the case, does anyone know what OCR programs are being used in JAWS 2018 to
perform the recognition and will there be ways to "tweek" the performance as
there is in Open Book?
It's an interesting release and future developments will be interesting.
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