[blindza] On-screen OCR software
- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BlindZA" <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:25:43 +0200
Hi
Found a small useful utility called PrintKey that literally does on-screen
OCR (optical character recognition) which means that if you get something
like an invitation/account etc. that has no text as such you can sort of
still 'read' it.
It's not perfect as such, and it also sort of uses a thing called Microsoft
Document Imaging which I think actually comes with MS Office, so you might
need to have that installed as well.
Haven't tested it too much yet, but it does sort of seem to work with some
stuff so I thought I might as well pass it on so long.
Anyway, I found out about it on a website called Inthane Elf's Grab Bag:
http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com/
It's mostly related to programming stuff, but anyway, when you get to that
page, do a search for 'PrintKey'.
Alternatively, you can just download the actual program/software from:
http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com/downloads/Printkey.exe
Basically when you run the thing, it lands up in the system tray, and then
when you have something on the screen and press the PrintScreen key, and
then open that thing using (in Jaws) Insert + F11 etc. you will land on a
'Print' button which when you press 'space' on it will save the thing in a
.mdi format which should also open automatically in that MS Document Imaging
thing, and then you open the Tools menu, and if you choose to save it to MS
Word (actually seems to save it to an off-line webpage - .htm), it will
automatically do the OCR thing first.
Also, FWIW, it's also a free open-source piece of software.
Like I said I have tested it a little bit, but not much, but anyway...
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
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