Downloading a pdf isn't the only way you get one nowadays. Thing is,
whether they or we like it or not, a lot of blind people at work (as you
can see from some of the messages here) are just given pdf's as part of
their jobs and must do with them whatever they can.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dujari, Prateek" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:35 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] JFW 13 OCR
Well I feel the convenient OCr, as he called it, is not that cool
really. First it purportedly just OCr's the stuff that fits on the
window on the PC screen within the open Adobe PDF file and totally
ignores the rest of the multi page Pdf file. Which means if I need to
access the whole doc which is almost always the case with anyone, u
still need to get another expensive PDF converter/OCR software. And
honestly in my case at least, and I'd assume in most blind people's
cases, we already know the topic of any PDF document we download with an
intention and or need to access all of it. I'd challenge that most
blind people don't just download a PDF file not knowing at all what the
heck it contains. In al such cases the JFW 13 OCr feature doesn't make
any diff really.
Now of course the situation is quite diff if u take a pic of a print
document u have no idea what it is using a camera and save then upload
it to your PC as an image file and then use JFW 13's OCR feature. IN
this case yes its valuable.
IN summary this feature is of any value only and only if you have no
clue what the soft PDF or image file contains.
Prateek
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gena
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] FSCast 58 Discusses JAWS 13
Well said. I agree whole heartedly. If everything works as he showed
in
the podcast, I think this will be the greatest version yet. I am very
excited.
Cheers, Gena
-----Original Message-----
From: Hamit Campos
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:00 AM
To: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of soner
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:03 AM
To: [email protected]
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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