That figures! I am not even sure it exists in Office 2007! I saw examples sayoing to reference Office 11.0 and 12.0, but it does not work for me. See previous message. Don Marang -------------------------------------------------- From: "Mike O'Brien" <mike23432@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:27 PM To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project > Hi Don > > Just wanted to let you know that the module MSPVIEW.EXE does not come with > the beta of Microsoft 2010, and from what I've seen on the internet, it > appears that modi no longer exists in Office 2010. Hope a free OCR > utility > can be found. > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donald Marang > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:02 PM > To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: OCR scripting project > > Thanks for filling us in on this promising investigation. It is a shame > that there does not appear to be a common image file format! I will look > into this free software after posting the next version of OCRSnapshot. > > For now, I am still doing a crash course on creating objects in JAWS. > Thanks Jamal as well for the last message which provided great resources > to > start learning. I really needed this information on how JAWS retrieves > unregistered objects. That might be the missing piece in my strawman > code! > I also installed Visual Basic Express and Visual Studio C++ Express in an > attempt to understand how objects work in Windows. My intention is to > perform the OCR using the Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) COM > object. > > Don Marang > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 3:01 PM > To: <JAWSScripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [jawsscripts] OCR scripting project > >> Don and others, >> I found another free OCR utility besides Tesseract. The commercial >> version of InftyReader is available at >> >> http://InftyReader.org >> >> The program specializes in performing OCR on scientific texts, >> including formulas, etc. The commercial version is an expensive GUI > application. >> The publisher made a free command-line version available a few years ago. >> Although there is a link for this version on the web site, I found >> that link to be broken, and Google searches did not find an >> alternative download. >> >> Someone from the BlindMath list, however, has the free version, and he >> emailed it to me. I am making it available at >> >> http://EmpowermentZone.com/InftyReaderE244e.zip >> >> The documentation says it can use .tif, .gif, or .png as input. I >> tried doing so with output from the NirCmd utility that Don told us >> about. >> Unfortunately, the .tif and .gif files were not recognized at all, and >> the >> .png file eventually produced a lockup. I also tried converting files >> to >> a more acceptable input format using the free ImageMagick program. No >> luck there either. >> >> Still, I may have missed something that others can figure out, so I >> hope this information is helpful for this or other projects that involve > OCR. >> >> Jamal >> >> >> __________ >> Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository >> http://jawsscripts.com >> >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> > __________ > Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > __________ > Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts