[nvda] Re: nvda and OCR software

Some of the cut-down versions of omnipage or Finereader that often come with scanners might be an alternative. Also, depending on on the country of residence, often older versions of the software are avaialble at a much reduced price and might serve the purpose adequately. For example, a couple of months ago, a full version of finereader 5.0 Pro came on a cd with a computer magazine over here and while not the latest in recognition technology, i used to scan many books using that version of FR and think it would be quite adequate for many people. 

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Doris
At 11:10 AM 10/21/2007 +0200, you wrote:
well, I don't think there is currently a good freeware / open source OCR software, for the simple fact that OCR technology require a lot of investment in research & developpement, and this costs a lot of money. so it will probably take some time before we will ever have an open source alternative to commercial OCR software.
same actually for text-to-speech, making a good multilingual TTS cost a lot of money, cause if you want to do it properly one must work with people specializing in native languages etc. not only computer programmers. That's why we don't have yet a good open source multilingual speech synthesizer.
but I'm sure this will come in the future. if only IBM could make their technology available as open source. 
Maybe we could make a petition.




Alf a écrit :
Hey guys. Is there any good free OCR software which works good with nvda and which has foreign languages impemented as well? 
Thanks for the answers
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