[jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project
- From: "Mike O'Brien" <mike23432@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:27:15 -0500
Hi Don
Just wanted to let you know that the module MSPVIEW.EXE does not come with
the beta of Microsoft 2010, and from what I've seen on the internet, it
appears that modi no longer exists in Office 2010. Hope a free OCR utility
can be found.
Mike
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donald Marang
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:02 PM
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project
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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