[bcab] Re: Turning print to speech

I do this with my Panasonic Lumix TZ3 digital camera (a camera which also makes 
a very good low 
vision aid, as it has a Leica wide angle lens and 10x optical zoom) and 
Scansoft omnipage Pro 14. 
In fact someone sent me a photographic scan of a newspaper article which was 
done at about 150dpi 
with the text in 2 columns and a photograph, and omnipage scanned it to Word 
format no problem.

Of course, if totally blind you'd have to be a pretty good shot with your 
digital camera, to snap an 
A4 page of text without chopping any of it off.  However Omnipage can do OCR on 
almost any image, so 
long as it's resolution is higher than 75dpi and lower than 600dpi.

Within Omnipage just choose File menu, get page, load image file.  It supports 
all the major image 
formats including JPG, TIFF, PNG, and even graphical PDF.  Then choose "process 
menu, perform OCR". 
It's pretty accurate and can output any text it finds within the image to 
either plain text or Word.

The other OCR package I've been using recently (for book scanning) is Readiris 
Pro, which is pretty 
good as well.

HTH - Leon Gilbert
Editor, www.vipnews.org.uk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Crisp " <charlescrisp@xxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:02 PM
Subject: [bcab] Re: Turning print to speech


The latest versions of Omni page 16 and Fine reader 9 offer the conversion
of camera Jpeg images containing text.
The OCR engine will make the text readable so long as the image is around
300 dpi with the usual caveats of  sharpness, contrast and being square with
the edge.


Kind regards

Charles Crisp

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-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Graham Wilkins
Sent: 25 March 2008 15:44
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Re: Turning print to speech

Nuance have been promoting their latest scanning software by the idea that
you are on a 'plane and want to copy an article, so you take a digital photo
of it, which (when you are home) the software can scan and put into a
document.  Is it Omnipage they sell?
Graham W

----- Original Message -----
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To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:22 PM
Subject: [bcab] Turning print to speech


> Hello,
>
> I recently read somewhere about a piece of thechnology which can take a
> picture of a book and read it out in speech etc.
> I'm not talking about the KNFB-Reader!!!  I wonder if anyone could remind
me
> whether I was dreaming, or, is there a rival to KNFB?
>
> Des
>
> 'One Love!' :)
> We're all a part of the process...
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