RE: OCR programs that are useable with jaws
- From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:56:49 -0700
Dave, for your purposes, both Omnipage and Finereader are quite usable.
For the person who asked about Omnipage recognizing currency, this gives me
the chance to comment on the purchasing decision, not for Dave, but for
others. Indeed, Omnipage and Finereader cost less than the two blindness
products, and they are indeed usable. But for the additional money, for
those blindness products, you get features of unique use to blind people.
Sighted people do not need their OCR program to recognize currency; it helps
us a lot. They do not need their OCR program to enable them to read one
document while scanning another, because they do not need help reading.
There are many other examples of features Open Book and Kurzweil contain
because they are built to meet the needs of blind users who can't read
standard print, not just for people who want to input that print into the
computer.
Dean
The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens. -Baha'u'llah.
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of dave_d0619
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:40 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: OCR programs that are useable with jaws
Hello Listers:
Apart from OpenBook and Kurzweil 1000, which have their own speech access
software built-in, what other OCR (document scanning) software is
accessible using JAWS?
Thanks in anticipation.
sincerely:
Dave Durber
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