[jawsscripts] Re: OCRSnapshot 1.0

  • From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:15:55 -0500

That would be the ultimate solution in my mind as well!  Yes it was one of 
the  undesirable results of the Microsoft Office Document Imaging Tool from 
the command line.  I hope to find a better way soon.  See the answer to 
Jamal's message.

Don Marang

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From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:37 PM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: OCRSnapshot 1.0

> Cool, I've poked at doing this a couple times.  One immediate
> improvement I can think of, how about a command that puts the scanned
> text in the virtual buffer?  I'm guessing the OCR dump to Word is an
> artifact of the tools used?
>
> On 1/20/10, Donald Marang <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx> 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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