[jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:01:43 -0500
Thanks for filling us in on this promising investigation. It is a shame
that there does not appear to be a common image file format! I will look
into this free software after posting the next version of OCRSnapshot.
For now, I am still doing a crash course on creating objects in JAWS.
Thanks Jamal as well for the last message which provided great resources to
start learning. I really needed this information on how JAWS retrieves
unregistered objects. That might be the missing piece in my strawman code!
I also installed Visual Basic Express and Visual Studio C++ Express in an
attempt to understand how objects work in Windows. My intention is to
perform the OCR using the Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) COM
object.
Don Marang
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From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 3:01 PM
To: <JAWSScripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] OCR scripting project
> 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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