While it does not fill the needs of performing OCR on entire files,
convenience OCR has been long needed. I sent FS this reqquest more than
once. I also wrote a JAWS scrippt and later a Visual Basic appluication
intended to perforn OCR of a window on the screen. It was based upon
the OCR COM object in Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007. It never reliably
registered when installing on all computers.
My main goal was to help determine what was happening within a VMware
Virtual Machine. However, it also comes in handy on websites of
utilities which insist on displaying an image of an account statement!
As someone else mentioned, prices are often shown as an image to prevent
automated bargain bots from grabbing their price.
I can't wait to try it out!
*Don Marang*
Vinux Software Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
<http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I
am working on things that matter.
-- Dean Kamen
On 9/13/2011 5:35 PM, Dujari, Prateek wrote:
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
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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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