The latest version of Cobra still has OCR in it. (Some recent ACB Radio
"main menu" podcasts refer.) One hopes it will do well on image pdf's,
so that people aren't disappointed and that further development can take
place. Now the other big screen-readers will have to follow suit.
----- Original Message -----
From: "soner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] FSCast 58 Discusses JAWS 13
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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