May seem expensive, but have you considered Kurzweil? It is a very good program, and I use it a lot or have you considered open book? Two very good programs they might be expensive, but consider them because it will last a long time.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 14, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Tom Behler via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, all. > > > > A few weeks ago, I raised the issue of how best to use the OCR capability in > the most recent versions of Jaws to read scanned image PDF files. > > > > In response to my quiry, a list member gave me the following instructions: > > > > Tom, using your current version of JAWS, your best bet is to perform an OCR > of your screen, when you have an unreadable PDF in focus. To do this, you > will need to press JAWS Key plus the space bar to activate the layer menu. > > JAWS should make an audible sound indicating that you've done this > successfully. Then press the letter O. JAWS should announce OCR. Then > press S for screen. You can also press W for window, if the screen option > does not give you what you want." > > > > I received another scanned image file today, and tried both sets of > instructions, but had no luck in reading the text in the file. Jaws did > come up, but it spoke in the Jaws cursor voice, rather than the PC cursor > voice, and didn't appear to be reading anything meaningful from the document > in focus. > > > > Am I missing something here? > > > > I'd be happy to e-mail the file to anyone who might want to take a look at > it. > > > > P.S. I'm using Jaws 14 on a windows 7 machine here. Perhaps this would be > a good reason to upgrade to Jaws 16. > > > > Dr. Tom Behler from Michigan > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20141114/d2d15d02/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
