I have not used Textcloner personally but from what I have read about
it, it is just an accessible ocr package that is not self-voicing
like the $$$ packages but allows you to use your screenreader for speech.
Check the "file" menu if it has an "Open" entry or just try a
ctrl+o
I am pretty sure it will allow you to open some image formats at
least and then run ocr on them.
When an ocr program works with the scanner, the scanner takes a
picture of the print material you put on it and then saves the
picture as an image file that your text recognition program - Text
Cloner in your case - works its magic on, i.e. performs the optical
character recognition. When you feed it an image file, you just
eliminate the step of the scanner's taking the picture and sending
the saved image to Text Cloner.
I hope you can get it to work. Whatw format is your image file in?
Take care and good luck reading your letter!
Doris
At 09:47 PM 1/25/2012 -0500, you wrote:
I have "Text Cloner", Could I somehow use it to read an e mail that
is an image?
I wouldn't know how to get Text cloner to view the image since
it works from the printer/scanner.
Rich
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <d...@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Scan to text?
They can scan the document and send the image file to you. If you
have an older version of Microsoft Office you can do the OCR from
within Word. If you have a newer version of Microsoft Office you
can use Microsoft OneNote to do the OCR.
If you have neither, but have JAWS 13, you can try the Convenient
OCR package for JAWS.
If you have none of the above, you can try submitting the image to
one of the free on-line OCR engines.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu
Tel: (412) 268-9081
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