If you are using JAWS 13 you can use the built in OCR. It is only temporary, though, and is made for reading a single page at a time on the fly. If you want to OCR it and save the OCR document you will have to use something like Open Book.
On 1/9/2012 6:49 PM, Cindy wrote:
I'm not sure if this will work but you can try; people have sent me images of pages with which they needed help. I think they were jpegs, which may be what you have. I highlighted the text and copied it to a new Word file and made changes on that.It was so long ago I'm not sure that that' what I did, i.e., if the jpeg was copyable.email a page to me as an attachment and I'll try see if it works. It may depend on what kind of computer and software on it you have.Cindy *From:* Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Sent:* Monday, January 9, 2012 3:21 PM *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: "scan" from within computer? Is this what you wanted? Best Free OCR Software http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-ocr-software.htm On 1/9/12, Charisma <wishfulfish@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:wishfulfish@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > I have a question. > > Say I have a picture of text on my computer--that is, an image of a > book page rather than an editable text scan--can I use any software to > read that and make it into editable text? > > I am not sure if I said that clearly. > > Example: I scanned a book into my computer as photographs of the > pages. Is there any application I can use to "read" that photograph > and convert it into text? > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of > available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > >-- --"To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated, but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to, then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti -- Chela Robles E-Mail/GoogleTalk/AIM/MySpace/LinkedIn: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx> WindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx> E-Buddy ID: cdrobles693 Skype Name: jazzytrumpet Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chela.robles I volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to learn more and to join us, visit: http://www.bookshare.org Visit my blog piece from Learning Ally and after reading and listening to the song selection, fill out the form which requires no CAPCHAS unless you're a robot at: http://www.learningally.org/Blog/Access-and-Achievement/144/vobId__2525/ -- To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
