[nvda-addons] Re: ocr addon: can it scan the webpage
- From: "Kwork" <istherelife@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:19:02 -0700
What is a capture code?
Travis
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From: "Sean Terry" <chipper0182@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 7:00 PM
Subject: [nvda-addons] Re: ocr addon: can it scan the webpage
Since this add-on is open source, is there any way that anyone else could
make it better? Also, is there anyway that we could make an add on to scan
capture codes?
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> On Jun 21, 2014, at 7:29 PM, "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Seconded. The OCR addon scans the screen, it's not as fine-tuned as
> something meant to grab text from a document. So much depends on
> resolution, color, etc.
>
> You can OCR a particular object on the screen by moving to it with
> Object Nav, and then doing NVDA+R on it. It by default scans the
> focused object, which might not be what you want to scan, but I'm
> getting off the original topic here. :)
>
>> On 6/21/14, Stefan Moisei <vor_tex123@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I suggest you to find the manga in a downloadable format, e.g. pdf or jpg
>> and then run it through a specialized OCR software like FineReader. The
>> OCR
>>
>> engine used in the OCR addon is not as good as the commercial ones and
>> the
>> image resolution is much worse on the screen than in a downloaded image,
>> that's why I think it doesn't work. Plus the other things shown on the
>> screen along with the manga.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Amir
>> Se nt: Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:36 AM
>> To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [nvda-addons] ocr addon: can it scan the webpage
>>
>> Hi,
>> i know the ocr addon cannot scan the capcha. that's not my point or
>> question today, but i am wondering witch place will ocr works? on pdf
>> documents? and webpages too? because, i want to read mangga and as you
>> know, Mangga is the combination of texts and graphics. so cannot read
>> using the normal browse mode. So will ocr works on such thing? i tried
>> doing the ocr on the page but it says ocr done but nothing, i mean i use
>> the insert+up/down to read the ocr result, it's empty. any help?
>>
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