Hi.
Unless I'm not thinking straight, you can indeed recognize secure graphic pdf
files with JAWS. You need open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader first, then once it's
loaded and you're focused on the document that you can't read, insert+space, o,
d. That'll scan the pdf right out of Acrobat and present it in the JAWS virtual
viewer. You aren't able to use the recognize option
on the pdf file from file explorer as you apparently are already aware on
secure pdfs, so opening it in Acrobat Reader first then running the OCR on it
from there is the solution.
Your point still has merit though because if you already have Open book, then
you don't need Acrobat Reader installed - just context key on it and print and
pick the freedom printer. Can you even print from file explorer? Because if
not, you still have to open the pdf in Acrobat first to hit print, and you
might as well just have JAWS recognize it then.
It's fun having enough options to do this to have amunition for a discussion on
it.
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 9/4/2017 2:08 PM, Jim Pursley wrote:
Agree. Open Book carries with it a handy "Freedom printer" which is
able to open a secure graphically sent pdf so that I might read it.
Nothing else works, not even JAWS OCR. I suppose that I could print
to my HP printer, too, but I'd be using quite a bit of paper and would
need to physically scan each page. So, Open Book is my buddy.
On 9/4/2017 1:31 PM, Valiant8086 wrote:
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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