I use ABBYY Fine Reader version 10 Professional Edition. The version I'm using is 7 years old, so I'm sure there are more recent versions available. It works pretty well with Jaws 18 and Windows 7-10, although it takes some getting used to. These days, I mostly use my KNFB Reader app on my Moto Z Force smart phone or the OCR function of the HIMS Blaze ET for reading print. I also use the OCR function built in to Jaws for reading most PDF and other image files. However, Fine Reader still comes in handy in converting PDF to a Word file with the layout preserved well in the new accessible document. It's also great for scanning larger amounts of material through a scanner equipped with a document feeder. Fine Reader is a very powerful tool. It does far more than I can make it do due to limitations of the assistive technology and the features that compare images and machine readable text. It's really designed for sighted users, but it works very well for me as a blind user, too.
Jim Marks jimma...@mt.gov -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Cristóbal Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2017 9:51 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Tradeoffs with Abby FineReader from Kurzweil 1000 Hello list, I have Kurzweil 1000 and am considering switching to Abby FineReader for my desktop OCR needs. I've never really got use to the K1000 commands or interface and a lot of the extras that K1000 offers simply aren't of interest to me. Included calculator, calendar, database look up, etc. Like everyone else on these lists I imagine, my main interest is OCR accuracy which from my understanding shouldn't be a problem since K1000 and OpenBook use the FineReader OCR engine anyway. As a Jaws user, I am also interested to know of any possible issues or drawbacks/compromises one might encounter when using Abby FineReader as opposed to K1000. Between my iPhone with a ScanStand and the Jaws OCR feature I find myself using or needing a standalone desktop solution less and less, but for those times I do need one or wish to use for more involved scans, I'd like to be able to use something where I don't have to remember a completely different set of other commands and settings like in K1000. I am using JFW 18 on both Windows 10 and 7 computers. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
