Hi all.
Yes, same here. I am thinking Freedom Scientific are once again
listening to their customers rather than just concentrating on their
business or customers who use JAWS at work. I used the feature myself,
and it's very good. One strange scenario is that I use it to read text
displayed in a virtual machine console. This is handy if you are trying
to install an operating system from scratch inside a blank virtual
machine created with VMware Workstation, for example. There is always
Easy Install, but it's an option rather than a necessity now that
convenient OCR is here. The reason why JAWS is behind though once again
is because a less well known screen reader called Cobra was the first to
implement such a feature, called On-Screen OCR. Where JAWS is different
though is:
1. You can capture text not just for the entire screen, but also for the
focused window or control.
2. A different voice is used when reading text recognized. Normal text
uses the default JAWS cursor voice.
3. As soon as OCR has finished and text was present, the JAWS cursor is
automatically activated.
So a well thought out feature in my opinion and I hope it gets better.
Chat soon.
On 30/09/2011 20:47, Mary Stores wrote:
Hello,
Remember last week or so, there were so messages about JAWS 13 and how
it would help solve CAPCHAs? I remember Dane, you had said that Freedom
Scientific were once again behind, that there were already other
programs that do that.
I am listening to the FS58 podcast. It does not just help solve CAPCHAs,
this feature called Convenient OCR, but it also reads PDFs that are just
images, or text conveyed as graphics on web pages with just a few simple
keystrokes.
Now that I know more about this feature, I am really excited about it.
Mary
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