[nvda] Re: nvda and OCR software

According to the information on the web site, the software is free. I don't know what you downloaded from the site but it evidently isn't the free software available. However, according to the site, the free software has very severe limitations. Here is a quote from the information on the site:
If your documents have multi-column layouts, non-standard fonts, poor quality or color images, you will need one of our commercial ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Professional (Download) OCR applications or 
Imaging SDKs to get an accurate read.
In other words, if a book or magazine or document of any kind has more than one column, the free software won't decolumnize and read it in proper order. That makes the software very limited. You can't scan two opposing pages in a book simultaneously, thus making scanning take twice as long and much more cumbersome. It also means that you are limited to material with only one column. No wonder it's free. It's very limited and serious OCR users wouldn't be interested.
Gene 
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