[jawsscripts] OCR scripting project
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: JAWSScripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:01:03 -0500 (EST)
Don and others,
I found another free OCR utility besides Tesseract. The commercial
version of InftyReader is available at
http://InftyReader.org
The program specializes in performing OCR on scientific texts, including
formulas, etc. The commercial version is an expensive GUI application.
The publisher made a free command-line version available a few years ago.
Although there is a link for this version on the web site, I found that
link to be broken, and Google searches did not find an alternative
download.
Someone from the BlindMath list, however, has the free version, and he
emailed it to me. I am making it available at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/InftyReaderE244e.zip
The documentation says it can use .tif, .gif, or .png as input. I tried
doing so with output from the NirCmd utility that Don told us about.
Unfortunately, the .tif and .gif files were not recognized at all, and the
.png file eventually produced a lockup. I also tried converting files to
a more acceptable input format using the free ImageMagick program. No
luck there either.
Still, I may have missed something that others can figure out, so I hope
this information is helpful for this or other projects that involve OCR.
Jamal
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