[blindLaw] Abbyy FineReader and Court Documents with Line Numbers

Aaron Cannon cannona at fireantproductions.com
Wed Jun 17 19:10:38 UTC 2020


Sorry about the bad info. It looks like it's been removed from recent
versions of the program.

Aaron

On 6/15/20, K. Scott Carlson via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I'd like to bump this as I have been unable to figure out a way to do this
> in FineReader. I'm also encountering transcripts with both line numbers and
> timestamps for each line. For anyone who deals with documents like this, is
> there a way for JAWS to get around this stuff besides just scrolling?
>
>> On Jun 5, 2020, at 10:16 AM, K. Scott Carlson <kelbycarlson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I am not seeing an option to turn automatic column detection off in the
>> options dialogue. Just to be clear, I'm using FineReader itself, not
>> Kurzweil.
>>
>>> On Jun 5, 2020, at 10:07 AM, Aaron Cannon via BlindLaw
>>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not sure if it will help you any, but if you turn off automatic column
>>> detection in Abbyy, it should at least put your line numbers in the
>>> proper places. That way, you'll get a single number on each line,
>>> rather than a big group of them right up front.
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>>> On 6/5/20, K. Scott Carlson via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> I am using Abbyy FineReader to OCR all of my documents. I'm now in a job
>>>> that requires me to read a lot of court transcripts, which are always
>>>> marked
>>>> with line numbers on each page, and sometimes timestamped. Usually, but
>>>> not
>>>> always, when these show up they are at the top of the page before the
>>>> text
>>>> starts. For those who deal with documents like these on a regular basis,
>>>> how
>>>> do you handle it? Are there JAWS settings that might make it easier to
>>>> skip
>>>> over? I do not need to cite to specific line numbers when referencing
>>>> these
>>>> documents.
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