Moderated Re: Microsoft default OCR engine with JAWS convenient OCR
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JM Casey
Well, the actual editor inside doesn't work as well as I'd like for screen-readers as far as I can see so far. I think it'd be possible to scan stuff and then convert to your file format of choice and proofread from there. Like I said, I have an old scanner here but it's not set up to work with my Windows 10 computer and so I mostly just use it to OCR digitally archived stuff, for which it works great. It was sort of a snap decision to finally get the thing but I was tired of not having a workable solution to my oCR problem since I can no longer use Adobe Acrobat Pro, so I just decided to go for it.
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If you set it up this way it will add an item to yoru contexxt menu shell to oCR any pdf file, and will do a nice job of it. There are all sorts of formatting and language options, too. So while I think ther'es room for improvement, I still think it was worth getting the programme. -----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Warner Sent: July 5, 2022 04:11 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Microsoft default OCR engine with JAWS convenient OCR Hi Casey! I've often thought about getting ABBY myself, but always hesitated because I didn't know how accessible it would be. How do you find it for accessibility? Thanks! Gene... On 7/5/2022 3:47 PM, JM Casey wrote: I bought Abbyy; seemed worth it to me as I have to deal with a lot of obscure texts for my podcast that haven't yet been properly digitised. Don't have a workign scanner at the moment but can render any pdf including ones saved from images to be quite readable. |
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