[real-eyes] Fw: AMIS and GOCR: two free assistive technology programs
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> Access Ability (Blog)
> Friday, November 16, 2007
>
> AMIS and GOCR: two free assistive technology programs
>
> By Ron Graham
>
> I've got a couple of free assistive technology applications to share with
> you today.
>
> My reason for sharing them is that I was reviewing the
> 1 Stop for Free Assistive Technology
> site this morning, looking over the list of free programs. After reading
> what they do, these two programs sure sound like tools I could make use
> of.
>
> LINK:
> http://onlineconferencingsystems.com/at.htm
>
> I've previously posted about this web site, basically a clearinghouse of
> free assistive technology, here on Access Ability and it is definitely a
> site worth noting again.
>
> Now, about the software.
>
> First, I will grab
> AMIS,
> The acronym for the Adaptive multimediaInformation System.
>
> AMIS is open source DAISY playback software that is free to download and
> use. So, instead of needing to purchase software to playback DAISY files,
> I'll give this community-built player a whirl. If it works as it should,
> this can help the pocketbook of blind and visually impaired people who
> need to access books in the DAISY format.
>
> Additionally, the web site has downloads of the scripts needed to make the
> program play nice with the JAWS screen reader.
>
> LINK:
> http://amis.sourceforge.net/
>
> The second piece of software I'm going to download is
> GOCR,
> "an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU
> Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files."
>
> LINK:
> http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
>
> After I've downloaded and installed these utilities, followed by a little
> time to familiarize and used them enough to discuss them, look back here
> later for reviews of these two assistive technology tools.
>
> Posted by Ron Graham at 12:54 PM
>
>
> http://accessability.blogspot.com/2007/11/amis-and-gocr-two-free-assistive.html
>
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