[jawsscripts] Re: OCRSnapshot 1.0
- From: Martin Courcelles <martinfc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:40:51 -0500
Hi there,
Yes, very cool utility indeed.
There's always the free Simple OCR that might be an option.
Cheers,
Martin
On 1/21/2010 8:30 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> 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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