Hi there, Yes, very cool utility indeed. There's always the free Simple OCR that might be an option. Cheers, Martin On 1/21/2010 8:30 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote: > Thanks for developing this. > > I can report that the current Tesseract does not seem like a viable > alternative to the Word OCR, unfortunately. I found that the other > utility creates a .tif file in a format that Tesseract does not > understand. There are many variations on .tif format, and Tesseract is > picky about which ones it supports. I would love to learn otherwise, > but this is what my investigation found. I have some experience with > Tesseract from my PDF2TXT project at > http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe > > If anyone knows of another free OCR alternative that runs on Windows, > please let us know. > > Jamal > > > On 1/20/2010 11:20 PM, Donald Marang wrote: > >> I have uploaded my first version of a simple JAWS Script that automates >> capturing a screen snapshot of the foreground window to an image file, >> performs OCR on the image and displays the text. I started this project >> because it helps when using Virtual Machines with VMware. However, since I >> found various circumstances where this was helpful, I made it a default >> level script instead. If interested, read about and download the script at: >> http://mysite.verizon.net/marangs/OCRSnapshot.html >> As far as I know, the JSX installer still probably will fail on a 64 bit OS. >> In this case, you would need to download the zip file and follow the >> enclosed instructions. >> >> Don Marang >> __________ >> 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