Hi, Mike. O c r stands for optical character recognition. When you use a scanner and scanning software such as Open Book, the scanned document is read by the speech synthesizer built into the scanning software. The software uses the o c r and converts it to speech. I'm no geek, so if any others wish to jump in here and correct me, or perhaps explain things even better than I have tried to, I'm all ears, and I hope you are all ears as well, Mike, smile.
Mike M. -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+massey52=q....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Mike Rogers via Talk Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:01 AM To: Rod Hutton <rod_hut...@hotmail.com>; Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> Subject: Re: Introducing Virtual View 5.0 At the risk of sounding like a 75 year old, what is OCR? ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 06:47:18 -0500 Rod Hutton via Talk <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > For specific files you wish to process, you're best approach is to open the > files directly in the Virtual View window by choosing the third radio > button, called Source file. > As soon as you press Ok, you will notice that the browse for file dialog > opens, allowing you to select the file. > > Hth, > > Rod > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk > [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf > Of Martin Thomas Swaton via Talk > Sent: November 5, 2015 2:15 AM > To: Aaron Smith <asm...@aisquared.com>; Window-Eyes Discussion List > <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> > Subject: Re: Introducing Virtual View 5.0 > > hi and thanks for this great new - long awaited - feature! > I tried alt-print with a few pdf files opened in acrobat (newest > version) with very different results. > > How are we supposed to use this to get the best results out of it? > > When I open a pdf then turn off browse mode and press alt-print virtual > view starts the ocr. > In two out of three pdf files I got "no text found" But there is text, I > know it. > In the third file VV did find text but also scanned the menue and > sidebar of acrobat - so the text includes also "save pdf" "create pdf" > and everything else. > > how can I only get the text of an image? > And what can I do to get the other files scanned as an external ocr > would do it? > > Thanks for some hints! > best, > Martin > > > Am 04.11.2015 um 21:33 schrieb Aaron Smith via Talk: > > Virtual View 5.0 now supports exciting new features such as the ability to > OCR images from files or the screen, plus virtualizing various document > formats, including PDF files. Here are some other features: > > > > * You can open an image in any format (jpg, bmp, png, tiff, > etc.). > > * If you press Alt-Print Screen to capture the active window, > Virtual View will automatically OCR it for you. > > * The Virtual View options dialog lets you control image > manipulation to increase OCR success. > > * Supports UAC, allowing you to get contents (specifically > UIA) from windows that are elevated. > > > > * Images inside PDF files are prepended with [BEGIN > IMAGE] and appended with [END IMAGE]. > > * You can choose several different kinds of file formats to > virtualize, including: > > > > * Txt > > > > * Html > > > > * Xml > > > > * Zip > > > > * And if you have Office installed: > > > > ? Docx > > > > ? Xlsx > > > > ? Pptx > > > > Imagine a Word document filled with text boxes and word art. That > information will show up as plain text when passed through Virtual View. > Spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations are the same way. If you want to > quickly skim a PowerPoint presentation without opening PowerPoint, use > Virtual View. > > > > With zip files, Virtual View can open the zip file and get the text of all > text files. 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