Dave, I usually use Kurzweil 1000 for PDF image documents, but I have run into a few of them where the security is set so high that they won't go to the Kurzweil printer without a password. Gary King ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Carlson To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 6:14 PM Subject: Re: Onscreen OCR Gary, You'll need to use Freedom Import Printer (if you have Openbook installed) or some other OCR. Does your Acrobat Reader have OCR or Text Recognition in any of its menus? Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary King To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; GW-Info Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 14:34 Subject: Onscreen OCR How can we get access to secure PDF documents that are just images of pages, or programs that have controls with graphical text labels, or perhaps even the actual titles on DVDs? I guess these frustrations are responsible for a wish that I've heard from time to time on various lists that OCR could be incorporated into a screen reader. I always thought this was just wishful thinking until I heard the June 23, 2009, edition of Innovations. You can hear the program by going to The Global Voice at www.theglobalvoice.info and visiting the Program Gallery. The last interview on this edition of Innovations was with a representative from Baum, a company in Germany which manufactures the Cobra screen reader. I found the most interesting feature of Cobra to be it's onscreen OCR capability. Pressing a key combination will take a screenshot of graphical text and pass it along to a dedicated version of the FineReader OCR engine, where text recognition takes place. You can then read one of those secure PDF documents with images of text or interact with a program whose controls with graphical text have now been identified. Nothing was mentioned about titles on DVD menus, but if they are displayed in a font that FineReader can recognize, then you should be able to access them as well. If onscreen OCR works well in practice, the question now is: Which screen reader company, GW Micro or Freedom Scientific, will be next to offer their users this new innovation in screen reading technology? Gary King mailto:w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx