[blindlaw] Question

Mon Jun 1 03:20:09 UTC 2009

Hi Bill,

Have you used a dedicated OCR package, as opposed to the OCR capabilities
built into Adobe or something else? I ask because I know that Kurzweil
contains older versions of the OCR engines in Abbyy and OmniPage. Kurzweil
and OpenBook contain additional features that will make them better
solutions for some people. But I personally prefer Abbyy, which is fast and
incredibly accurate. (I have heard that it is less likely to lock up a
computer than Kurzweil, but that concerned an earlier version of Kurzweil.)
I wouldn't necessarily recommend that people who are using OpenBook or
Kurzweil switch to Abbyy or OmniPage. But if you are in the market for a
dedicated OCR program, These two packages are very accessible and are very
good at what they do.

Best,

Angie

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Bill Spiry
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question

Kurzwiel does have that capability as well and I also find it to work better
with OCR than Adobe or other off the shelf OCR engines.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS)
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:35 PM
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Yes, this does happened a lot, because the machine on which the PDF scan
is created is not set to create the imbedded text scan.  If this happens
a lot and you know the person who is sending you the PDF, then you can
ask them to go into the software on the scan equipment and check the box
for text scanning to be included as an imbedded part of the PDF
document.  It makes the file larger, but not as much an increase as I
would have guessed.

The alternative is to either get the Adobe Professional level software,
which comes with a built-in text recognition feature, or in the case of
Openbook, run it through the Freedom Import virtual scanner, which in my
experience works better than Adobe's built-in scanner.  Also, the Adobe
built-in scanner gives no audible feedback while it is working, so with
a large document, you can sit there for several minutes wondering if it
is still working or has locked up.

I have no idea if the KW scanning software has a similar feature, but I
would guess it does, since the two products seem to stay pretty even
with each other.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Steve P. Deeley
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question

How can you get a scanned document to read.  This seems to be happening
more and more.  I think folks are using copy-printers to scan and send
things like newsletters.  This is frustrating, don't you think?

Steve-- Original Message -----
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
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Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question

> This happens when the document contains a graphic, not actual
> text.  Usually this happens because someone scans a document, then
> makes that image file into a PDF.  You can OCR it, .
> At 09:45 PM 5/27/2009, you wrote:
>>Every time I try to open this PDF, it says, "Ellert: empty
>>document." I tryed converting it to text, but It won't work. Is
>>their some thing wrong with the document? Please email me off list,
>>at: rjs59 at hotmail.com Thanks, RJ
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