Hello users, I would like to point out that while this new JAWS OCR feature will be useful for quick access to a file that is an image, the real power is the fact that when you are working in an app or on a page, where graphics are used in places where interaction is required, JAWS (the JAWS Cursor) is able to now navigate to the exact location of the text that has been OCR'd and you can now click in that location. In the coming days and weeks, you will continue to hear about this from users as they continue to experiment with apps and web locations where they have struggled before.
Regards, Eric -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Lee Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] RE2: OCR on graphical text using OneNote Hello tom, OneNote was changed a lot in Office 2010. It uses a ribbon interface. It seems to be somewhat accessible but certainly not entirely. A person can record audio or video notes, send the notes in Email including as PDF files, quickly interface with Outlook tasks and meetings, and do lots of other functions. I haven't spent much time with it though as I don't find it adds a lot of value for me, and I can quickly do many of its functions with other programs just as well. At work, I have used the OCR to get text from image type files and that has been beneficial for me. Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bissett, Tom Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:49 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] RE2: OCR on graphical text using OneNote Hi Brian, can you do much else with one note? I tried using one note 2003 but couldn't use it workably nor could I find any one that was able to use it. Regards Tom Bisset -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Lee Sent: September 13, 2011 7:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] RE2: OCR on graphical text using OneNote Hello Prateek, I have only used single-paged PDF files. JAWS doesn't recognize the text at all and just says "alert, empty document." For those image files, I have simply used copy and paste between Adobe Reader and OneNote. However, in the edit menu of Adobe Reader 10.1 there is a choice to copy the file. If you copy the file instead of choosing the regular copy command, you can paste it in OneNote and then copy the text from the image. Copying the file should work for multi-paged documents. Results will vary according to the quality of the input. Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dujari, Prateek Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] RE2: OCR on graphical text using onenote Hello. so if I have a PDF file, one of those which is all text but where the text is pasted as a graphic such that OCR software like Nuance's PDF converter professional and others are in effective: then can I open the inaccessible PDF file in Adobe, then hit CTRL A to presumably select all pages in the open Pdf file, then CTRL C to copy and then paste it using CTRL V in onenote and follow the couple of steps in onenote as described below to make all that graphical text readable by the PC cursor of JAWS? Really? Prateek -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Lee Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] FSCast 58 Discusses JAWS 13 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 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adi Kushnir Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:06 AM To: [email protected] 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: [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. 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