[jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:49:23 -0500
That figures! I am not even sure it exists in Office 2007! I saw examples
sayoing to reference Office 11.0 and 12.0, but it does not work for me. See
previous message.
Don Marang
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From: "Mike O'Brien" <mike23432@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:27 PM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [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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