So you always know the PDF you download is
accessible and free from security? You never know
that unless you know who made it and that is very little.
At 05:35 PM 9/13/2011, you 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
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[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] 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
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From: Hamit Campos
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:00 AM
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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.
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[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 Ý 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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