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OCR Software for the Visually impaired

  • 04-04-2006 11:35am
    #1
    Silver1306
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    Hello to everyone,
    I'm a new user and I am looking for advice on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Software for the visually impaired. If anyone could recommend a good package for use with a scanner and JAWS Software I would appreciate it very much.
    Thx

    Silver


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  • #2
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    ABBYY FineReader Sprint 5.0, It is great for scanning in text for putting into Documents etc. For the visually impaired I really wouldn't know. But for normal office OCR requirements ABBYY is the best as it reads most text even bad crappy stuff very well. I have used several programs and ABBYY makes the least spelling mistakes. I presume you want something that would allow you to scan say a page of text and then read it out onscreen using a computer voice. I will do a rummage lateron this evening on Google to see what I can find but if you could get a package that would read text on its own IE. do the talking bit and use ABBYY to read the stuff, that could work too.

    [EDIT] Welcome to boards too, have a great time! Enjoy! [EDIT]


  • #3
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Contact NCBI. They regularly scan and OCR books.


  • #4
    Silver1306
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭Silver1306


    Thx a mill I really appreciate it. Makes sense what your saying. I reckon if the page gets converted to a word document or whatever format JAWS can interact with at all, it be fine with the onscreen speech software.

    Thx alot

    Silver


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