Re: [JAWS-Users] Does enhanced convenient OCR do a good job on an PDF image?

[Jason White]

Jim Slagle  wrote:
> Has anyone tried using enhanced convenient OCR? 
> What was your experience? 


My experience under Adobe Reader was that JAWS processed the entire document
with OCR, then allowed me to read the recognized text in a virtual viewer. As
I recall, the documents on which I tried it were journal articles retrieved
from online sources. They were PDF files containing images of the printed
pages rather than the actual text as characters.

As far as I can remember, recognition was not a quick process, so you may have
to wait a while for it to be completed.


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Re: [JAWS-Users] Does enhanced convenient OCR do a good job on an PDF image?

[Jim Pursley]

Not answering your question directly, I find that Open Book is ze best 
graphics text reader for me.  When I encounter a graphic-any one with 
text in it - I just print the article in which it's embedded using CNTRL 
P and shortly the full text comes up.  If the graphic is a part of the 
overall, i just scroll to it.


Open Book is a great OCR option for anyone reading a lot of 
graphically-generated text.  It also works for protected etf's. 
Apparently, protected etf's print just as any other one.


I am a happy camper with Open Book.

On 12/24/2015 12:03 PM, Jason White wrote:

Jim Slagle  wrote:

Has anyone tried using enhanced convenient OCR?
What was your experience?


My experience under Adobe Reader was that JAWS processed the entire document
with OCR, then allowed me to read the recognized text in a virtual viewer. As
I recall, the documents on which I tried it were journal articles retrieved
from online sources. They were PDF files containing images of the printed
pages rather than the actual text as characters.

As far as I can remember, recognition was not a quick process, so you may have
to wait a while for it to be completed.


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Re: [JAWS-Users] Does enhanced convenient OCR do a good job on an PDF image?

[Merv Keck]

What is enhanced convenient OCR? As opposed to Convenient OCR? I use both
Openbook and Convenient OCR and find them both to be extremely useful. I
would not be without either one. I use the latest version of Jaws 17 and I
have used convenient OCR to get me out of a few tight spots including
reading a long renters agreement that nothing else would read that was sent
to me via PDF electronically. It did a spectacular job.
As for Openbook, I am reading my mail as well as books with Openbook and
while I have my own Openbook I am using a borrowed Pearl. That works totally
as advertised. I just forwarded someone a letter from the phone company
yesterday and they thought I copied and pasted text from the web site. They
were surprised when they discovered I had scanned a letter using Openbook
and pasted the text into an email. 
I'm looking forward to seeing what Freedom Scientific comes up with next.


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Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Does enhanced convenient OCR do a good job on an
PDF image?

Not answering your question directly, I find that Open Book is ze best
graphics text reader for me.  When I encounter a graphic-any one with text
in it - I just print the article in which it's embedded using CNTRL P and
shortly the full text comes up.  If the graphic is a part of the overall, i
just scroll to it.

Open Book is a great OCR option for anyone reading a lot of
graphically-generated text.  It also works for protected etf's. 
Apparently, protected etf's print just as any other one.

I am a happy camper with Open Book.

On 12/24/2015 12:03 PM, Jason White wrote:
> Jim Slagle <jamesrsla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone tried using enhanced convenient OCR?
>> What was your experience?
>
> My experience under Adobe Reader was that JAWS processed the entire 
> document with OCR, then allowed me to read the recognized text in a 
> virtual viewer. As I recall, the documents on which I tried it were 
> journal articles retrieved from online sources. They were PDF files 
> containing images of the printed pages rather than the actual text as
characters.
>
> As far as I can remember, recognition was not a quick process, so you 
> may have to wait a while for it to be completed.
>
>
> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit:
> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
>
>
>

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[JAWS-Users] Does enhanced convenient OCR do a good job on an PDF image?

[Jim Slagle]

Has anyone tried using enhanced convenient OCR? 
What was your experience? 
Jim Slagle

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