[jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project
- From: Chris Hallsworth <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:20:08 +0000
Yeah works with my Office 2007 installation as well. I hope it will
continue this way when 2010 comes out.
Chris Hallsworth
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On 31/01/2010 03:40, Soronel Haetir wrote:
> 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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