Hi Robin and all,
I own and use the latest OpenBook with the Pearl camera. In terms of how the
camera/scanner-based OCR features in JAWS stack up against this setup, the
simple answer is not very well!
You will get by with JAWS OCR, especially if you're using it just to read the
post and so on, but I have done side-by-side tests with JAWS and OpenBook
scanning the same document under the same conditions and OpenBook is always the
clear winner.
This is in stark contrast to PDF OCR, especially where the PDF does actually
contain the text, but is so locked down that JAWS can't access it. In
side-by-side comparisons of JAWS PDF OCR vs the Freedom Import Printer in
OpenBook, JAWS nearly always trumps OpenBook. I am always particularly blown
away with how JAWS deals with tables in PDF files - I get perfect tables in the
results viewer, which is such a huge step up from what OpenBook can do.
I don't understand why your OpenBook is freezing and may not be able to help
diagnose the issue further as I don't own a scanner. However, I have a similar
problem with the Pearl from time-to-time, where OpenBook will load but won't
allow me to switch on the camera light or acquire the source. Usually if I wait
a minute or two (during which I usually ALT TAB away to do something else and
then ALT TAB back again), the issue will sort itself out.
In terms of using JAWS in place of OpenBook, the easiest way to do it (as I
think someone else may have already said) is to press INSERT+SPACE, O, A (for
acquire). However, I can't remember whether this works with scanners or just
with the Pearl Camera.
If you can't get your setup to work in this scenario, I think you can indeed
right click an image in explorer and get OCR on the fly. There are quick keys
to do this but I can't remember what they are. However, if you press
INSERT+SPACE, O, question mark, it will tell you.
Hope this helps,
Matthew
P.S. the question mark works anywhere in layered mode, e.g. INSERT+SPACE,
question mark will tell you all of the keys you can press in the main layer.
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Robin BT
Sent: 19 May 2018 20:02
To: Jaws-UK List <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jaws-uk] OCR, reading mail
Hi all,
Please excuse the dummy comments here, this is someone who has been using an
old Open Book in demo mode for years to read my mail or the occasional wrapper
or food container to see what it says.
Since the latest Windows 10 update the other day, I have come across a few
issues, one of which is Open Book just freezes now when I try to scan a letter
or a food label etc.
I do have a Samsung printer/scanner and can easily use windows scanning tool to
create a bmp, jpg or tif file.
I've never really studied the OCR functionality of jaws, so can anyone
tell me, can Jaws now take over the Open Book or the old Kursweil
functions? If the postman drops a letter through my door, can I now scan
it as an image and get Jaws to read it proficiently?
I've read something along the lines of, save your image file, then
select shift F10 and there's an option to use Jaws to read the text on
the image? Is it really that easy?
I do have the latest Jaws 18 build, Windows 10 with a 32bit pc and a 64
bit machine as well on our home network here.
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Cheers, Robin
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