[jawsscripts] Re: OCRSnapshot 1.0
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:30:01 -0500
Thanks for developing this.
I can report that the current Tesseract does not seem like a viable
alternative to the Word OCR, unfortunately. I found that the other
utility creates a .tif file in a format that Tesseract does not
understand. There are many variations on .tif format, and Tesseract is
picky about which ones it supports. I would love to learn otherwise,
but this is what my investigation found. I have some experience with
Tesseract from my PDF2TXT project at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe
If anyone knows of another free OCR alternative that runs on Windows,
please let us know.
Jamal
On 1/20/2010 11:20 PM, Donald Marang wrote:
> I have uploaded my first version of a simple JAWS Script that automates
> capturing a screen snapshot of the foreground window to an image file,
> performs OCR on the image and displays the text. I started this project
> because it helps when using Virtual Machines with VMware. However, since I
> found various circumstances where this was helpful, I made it a default level
> script instead. If interested, read about and download the script at:
> http://mysite.verizon.net/marangs/OCRSnapshot.html
> As far as I know, the JSX installer still probably will fail on a 64 bit OS.
> In this case, you would need to download the zip file and follow the enclosed
> instructions.
>
> Don Marang
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