[jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:31:17 -0500
Why do all of these applications insist on different image file formats and
to violate the standard so no one else can work with it? (rhetorical
question)
I just bought a great AllInOne printer, Epson Artisan 810, which has a flat
bed scanner with a 20 page Automatic Document Feeder for Christmas. It is
also a stand-alone wireless N device. It has great resolution. My daughter
loves it to scan in her art. Unfortunately, it normally scans to JPG or PDF
file formats.
As soon as I work out a network issue, I will attempt to scan directly from
the Microsoft Office Scanning tool instead. It is strange, all three
computers in our house can print and see the memory card, but my computer is
the only one that can not scan from it directly. . Not sure why yet,
perhaps VMware screwed up the networking?
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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