I love Kurzweil! I used to use it in conjunction with a rattly od scanner
when reading letters but found out by complete accident that you can scan
PDF's in to plaintext among other things!
Incidentally, since this subject thread is entitled Information, I just
thought I'd share with you all that I used the new tesco.ie website the
other day and was...on the whole...impressed. There is no longer an
access
site but since you navigate the products and your basket by different
headings now it's simple enough...the only issue occured when I went to
book
my delivery slot which works in a series of unlabelled radio buttons
instead
of the customary link for the preferred day/time of delivery. That was a
bit
trial and error but I'm sure I'll get used to it.
Regards,
Louise.
----- Original Message ----- From: <Paul.Griffith@xxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:17 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: information
Yes nicky,
Its true, jaws will not read what is an image, and not text,
But I am amazed that kurzweil, can read the image
so this is as far as I am concerned a breakthrough, , hope
It will help you in your work as well,
Cheers
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
NicholasKealy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 03 February 2010 11:55
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: information
Paul, the little I know about this I will tell you. I would suspect
that the PDF was an image. Therefore jaws can not read it. I am
possibly having to purchase the same software for my work also to deal
with this problem. Its all to do with optacle character recognition or
OCR. Now, others will be able to explain to you in more detail about
this but just thought I would chime in here and say you are not alone.
Now, that's my useless bit of information for this morning.
Cheers, Nicky.
Nicholas Kealy
Information Services
National Employment Rights Authority
O'Brien Road
Carlow
Tel: 059 - 9178947
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