I have only Office 2007 products on my laptop and your OCR script works on it. Maybe I picked up MDOI with something else, but it sure wasn't from an Office installation other then 2007. On 1/30/10, Donald Marang <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- Soronel Haetir soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx __________ 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