Hi Mary, I am not sure if there are any active lists, I subscribed to one some time ago, and never did see any traffic. If you are on the tech talk list, you could post your question there.
HTH, Rick Justice "Tomorrow's another day, another way!" "and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Otten" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2017 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Using JAWS OCR Is there a users list for that product? Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 19, 2017, at 6:50 AM, David Ferrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Open Book works fine under windows 10. I am sitting in front of such a > system so take my word for it. > > -----Original Message----- From: mary otten > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 9:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Using JAWS OCR > > Very much appreciated, Rebecca. I’m glad this is possible. I had actually > looked at the FS site about their Openbook program, although I’ve been a > K1000 user for a very, very very long time. <smile> But it looks like OB > doesn’t run under win-10 based on what I saw, which would be a show > stopper for sure for me. > > Mary > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Rebecca Lineberger > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 5:45 PM > To: jaws user's list > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Using JAWS OCR > > There have been several questions about OCR and saving the scanned > results. > This is what I did. This is a bit detailed, so delete as you please. > Smile. > > I'm using Windows 10 1709 Creator update, Jaws 2018 and Word 2010. > > I have several image files saved so was able to test using these formats" > PDF and JPG. > > Rather than first opening the PDF file, waiting for the > > "alert, empty document," > > message, and then scanning with the layered keystrokes, insert-spacebar, > o, > then d, > > with the PDF file selected in a folder in Documents, I used the context > menu > key, also known as the application key, and arrowed down to > > Recognize with JAWS. > > I pressed enter and after a second or two, JAWS said > > Started. > > The scanned information was there to read. I was able to select and copy > it > with the usual Windows commands, either shift-down arrow to select, or > control a, to select all, and control c to copy. > > I then pasted the results into Word, and there it was, to be saved as > usual. > I did not try to save in Notepad, assuming that if all worked in Word, > notepad would be no different. > > As to the second format, a print letter with an embedded picture, scanned > in Kurzweil and saved as a JPG image, it worked a bit different. > > All went the same until I pasted the copied information into Word. Again, > I > used the context menu key on the file name to arrow to > > Recognize with JAWS. > > I was told that the image was right-side up, and there was the text > waiting > to be read. But when I copied and pasted it into Word, Word was not > happy, > smile, and kept giving me information about > > non-uniform tables, row and column information. Rather than playing with > my > table settings in the JAWS quick settings menu, I figured notepad might be > a > better option in this case. > > When I pasted the same copied results into notepad, the file read as it > had > when scanned by JAWS. > > At this point, just because I prefer saving in Word, I reselected the > information in notepad, copied it, and pasted it into Word. Word was no > longer cross, muttering about tables, so all was well. > > For those who have made it to the end, HTH. Smile. > > Rebecca > > > > > > > > A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open. > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
