[access-uk] Re: OCR in Webvisum: anyone got it to work?
- From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:48:25 +0100
Ray – the webvisum FAQ does say that this feature only works on certain sorts
of images, or at least only on images used for navigation andthat it is far
from perfect and that they will work on it further. The fact that if you
select and right click on an image on this site, the OCR option doesn’t show
up as one of the functions available suggests to me that this image type or
something about these images aren’t supported. In this case the links are
infact hotspots within an image map so it may infact be the case that there
isn’t even any graphical text to ocr, or that the webvisum tool isn’t able to
differentiate between the selected and not select hotspot within the image map
so doesn’t know where to ocr.
Adrian Higginbotham,
Manager, Leading edge research
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Sent: 27 July 2008 15:11
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: OCR in Webvisum: anyone got it to work?
Andy, I was at pains to try and point out that it is not the control-6 command
I'm talking about here, but the alt-control-65 command that is supposed to deal
with web pages that have images of text rather than those verification images
that are distorted so ordinary OCR wouldn't pick them up.
Again the offending page is:
http://www.blackcountrypodcasting.com/
I'm not just now aiming to have a showdown with this guy who does allow us to
use parts of his podcast on our talking newspaper, so I'm looking to negotiate
a rewrite of the site, eventually. There is really no reason the site
shouldn't look the way it does with propper formatting and/or style sheets.
Cheers,
Ray.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Collins <mailto:andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: OCR in Webvisum: anyone got it to work?
Ray - not sure where you get alt control 5 from, others that have been
using the webvisum add on, say the key stroke is control 6; i can't confirm or
otherwise, as I haven't had any success with it myself! -
Andy
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