[jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:40:18 -0900
I have only Office 2007 products on my laptop and your OCR script
works on it. Maybe I picked up MDOI with something else, but it sure
wasn't from an Office installation other then 2007.
On 1/30/10, Donald Marang <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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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