[jawsscripts] Re: jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.

  • From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:47:24 +1100

Ah. yes. I figured that would be kinda tricky to make reliable,
and a lengthy one too.
<sigh.>

I guess licensing must be the reason they haven't offered at least a manual 
copy to clipboard function with convenient OCR?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 1:07 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.


>I would think so, for as good as Convenient OCR actually works.
> Or, perhaps you could decode portions of bit mapped text, and control the
> behavior of a script based on it.  But, the time involved for the OCR 
> thing
> to do it's job probably makes that unrealistic.
> Hit a hot key and go to lunch.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 9:07 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.
>
>
> Hmmm, Does this mean one could make OCR try to auto scroll through a
> document and copy/append each portion of OCR  text to the clipboard? 
> should
> one desire to?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stefan Moisei" <vortex37@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 7:01 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.
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>
>>I don't know fs's intended use for this function, but I know how I might
>>use
>> it.
>> The screen xml output includes OCR text, if existent. It is marked as OCR
>> in
>> the xml. One can copy it, I guess one can also trigger OCR on a specific
>> event and get the new text with this.
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Jim Snowbarger
>> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 4:55 AM
>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in 
>> Scripting.
>>
>> Very interesting.  The next thing will be how to make use of this .xml
>> information.
>> Basically, this is our equivalent of print screen.
>> If I understand, from this, you can get all text, including text color 
>> and
>> attributes.  You don't get graphics, and don't know anything about window
>> boundaries.
>>
>> What is actually the intended purpose of this?  Anybody know?
>>
>> One idea that comes to mind is that, if a client wanted to pass you a
>> screen
>> shot, they could capture this .xml information, and send it to you.  You,
>> as
>> a script developer, have some clever tool that decodes the XML jibberish,
>> and renders it in some familiar form, a web page, or a virtual viewer, or
>> something like that.
>> Does something already exist?  Or, do I feel a utility coming on.
>> Sounds like a nice addition to my JLS_utilities, and/or Doug's BX.
>>
>> JLS actually has a means of collecting the window structure from a
>> client's
>> machine, including window attributes, such as boundary coordinates, 
>> style,
>> type, class etc, and even the text in each window, done of course only
>> under
>> the control of the client.  But, they basically create a big data file
>> that
>> they send to me.  I put JLS in a special mode where all the window
>> navigation functions, GetFocus, GetPriorWindow, GetNextWindow etc, all
>> consult the data file, rather than my own system.
>> The missing piece was color and attributes for the text.
>> This would supplement that.
>>
>> Of course, we still don't have pixel colors in non-textual areas.  But,
>> I'm
>> getting the disturbing impression that precious information like that may
>> be
>> becoming harder to obtain.  ,sigh>
>>
>> Anyway, back to the original.  Does anybody know the intended means of
>> interfacing with the XML data?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 2:57 AM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.
>>
>>
>> JAWS 14 includes a new scripting function for obtaining screen content in
>> XML format. For more information on using this new function, refer to the
>> JAWS 14 includes a new scripting function for obtaining screen content in
>> XML format. for further information see:
>> http://www.freedomscientific.com/documentation/scripts/scripting-info.asp
>>
>> Short URL:
>>
>> http://bit.ly/RFtrUd
>> Geoff C.
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