Hello, I have not yet heard the podcast from Freedom Scientific, but I want to point out to people using Office 2010 with OneNote in the suite that you can do OCR on image files using that program. You can extract text from .tif, .jpg, .pdf, etc. If you open a .TIF file that contains text (in Windows Photo viewer for example), simply copy the text to the clipboard. Open OneNote using Windows key with N. Paste the contents of the clipboard. If you get a pop up menu choose to open the file as a print out so you can add notes. When the image is pasted arrow up or down to the line that says something like "machine generated text" and use application key. Arrow down to the menu choice for copying text from image and press enter key. You can then open Word and paste the text. It does a pretty good job.
Take care. Brian Lee brianl...@charter.net -----Original Message----- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Adi Kushnir Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:06 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] FSCast 58 Discusses JAWS 13 Hi, I agree with you about the OCR. In Israel, I use ABBYY FineReader 11 professional edition because the OCR is much better and I don't think that omnipage has Hebrew support. So, JAWS 13 will not have Hebrew OCR but Baum uses FineReader and has Hebrew. But, because I don't like Baum and I love FS, I will be stuck for this feature! Adi. Regards, Adi. -----Original Message----- From: Hamit Campos Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:00 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] FSCast 58 Discusses JAWS 13 The OCR thing is way cool. Especially when Errick read the DVD main menu with it. Think about it. If JFW 13 when it does work with Win 8 doesn't hook like NVDA and System Access do, it'll be So much easyer still to watch a DVD on your own. Pluss you'll be using WMP which is already easy to use some what as it is. This will only make it all the more easier. Assuming JAWS works with out hooking to the Video that is. See because since it does that WMP thinks JAWS wants to coppy the disk so that's why one gets that diolauge about not being able to run the analogue coppy protection thing. In short, If JAWS doesn't hook to the video in Win 8, and if the OCR can scan DVD menus like it did for Erick, watching movies will be golden on the PC. -----Original Message----- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of soner Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:03 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com 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 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/
