OCR feature is indeed an old yet a failed idea trying to be implemented
by Baum of Germany before in its screen reading product called Cobra.
Should Baum sue Freedom then?
:)
Let the joke aside, this is really a great move and as Mr. Mosen puts it
well, a "game changer" in screen reading technology. yet İ wanna pose a
big but about the choice of Freedom's Omnipage as its OCR engine that it
is not the best in the market, as FS guys also may know very well that
most of the blinds over the world having non-FreedomScientific options,
use ABBYY Fine reader which is the pinnacle of the OCR products in the
market as of today.
So, a perfect idea with a wrong choice of engin...
P.S: independent reviews juxtaposing the two engins mentioned above can
easily be found with a simple Google search.
Regards
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