[jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR

  • From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:23:54 -0700

Guys, this seems like another useless jaws feature. This OCR thing is almost 
exactly what one can do with a screen capture utility built into Windows or 
what you can download get for fee.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Take-a-screen-capture-print-your-screen

Yeah, this screen capture process might be slightly faster with jaws 13, but 
is this worth a hit on one's SMA? I say h no!

If you listen to the FS podcast you will also come across something to the 
effect of Jonathan saying that scriptors on this list were all excited about 
this new feature. I don't recall a single post on this list commenting on 
this feature. This makes Jonathan less than credible but I don't fall for 
company BS about their own products anyways. Furthermore, I wil now accept 
Jonathan's comments with a handful of salt. He's lots almost total 
credibility with me with this comment at it is blatantly disingenuous. He 
also claimed this feature to be a game changer in screen reader technology.

A-W

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Smart" <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:00 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Jaws 13 OCR


So, have any of you played with the OCR feature in Jaws 13 beta yet?

I managed to register a program last night, whose initial
registration screen was formerly invisible to Jaws. Too bad that
once I registered the program, the rest of the application turned
out to be invisible as well. *LOL*

So far, we can ocr and then read or mouse click on the results.
In what ways could this new information gleaned through OCR be tied
to other Jaws functions? I'm thinking it would be nice to be able
to put the Jaws cursor on part of the OCR results and transfer the
text into the graphics labeler, for example.

Chris

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