Hi Shirley, It’s a good idea to know how to use it, it’s a feature I use almost daily if I get inaccessible PDF files, now in Jaws 2018 Jaws OCR can also do OCR on other image files like jpg

This method only works for a PDF. Shirley said somebody emailed her a picture of some text so it is quite likely that this would be a jpg (JPEG) file in which case you have to go through Windows

I downloaded it yesterday on my desktop.

Thank you Jason! I sent them an email and hopefully will get a response. My next step will also be now contacting the creators of Escription or Editscript as it is also known, as I found an issue

Hi, John. That’s only going to work if she has a pdf document and Adobe Acrobat Reader. Bill White billwhite92701@...

Out of intressd what is the context applications key ? Cheers Joe

I just upgraded to the 2019 beta at home, and the problems seems to have completely disappeared. Jerry Berrier Director of Education Technology Perkins School for the Blind 175 North Beacon

Hi Shirley, Convenient OCR in jaws is actually really good, plus nice and easy to use to. Firstly, nope you don’t require a camera for OCR, so all you’ll need to do is open up the file your

Not jaws key + f10. Shift f10. It’s a windows command. The applications key should also do it, if you have one.

With out opening the file; Highlite the file, Right click or jaws key and f10 and arrow to I think is ocr and hit enter

We will try that. Thank you Rob. Brian Prewitt Information Systems Manager Mississippi Industries for the Blind 2501 North West Street Jackson, MS 39216 P: (601) 984-3213 F: (601)

Here you go: All the direct download links are below plus what's new in this version. JAWS 2019 Beta Report Form: https://www.freedomscientific.com/Forms/JAWSBetaReport 32 Bit:

Hi Shirley, Sorry I forgot to say, I’m using jaws 18, the instructions I gave work fine in that version of jaws, but I don’t have jaws 2018, so can’t say if the instructions I gave still

Shirley: Try this… Open the file you were sent. Hold down the JAWS key (bottom left of the key pad) and press the space bar. You will hear a sound. Release the keys. Then press O and then

You can use it if you don’t have a camera. It can process certain types of files, like .jpg files. So, how did this person send the picture? You should be able to save it on your machine, and if

Well, that’s good to know. Pretty frustrated with that whole business.

Hello, I press the alt key to open the menue bar to stop the announcement. Klaus -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 11:00 To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: JAWS keeps

Yes and it cured my firefox crashes!

Can someone please point me to detailed steps for using convenient OCR? Can I use it if I don’t have a camera? Someone sent me some information I thought they were going to scan in and email to

This works for me in outlook 2016. With the focus on the email you want to move,go to the Applications menus and either arrow down or use m to bring you to the option to move the email to