[blindLaw] jaws reads a lot of unnecessary information when reading out ocr-ed documents

[Singh, Nandini]

No, not without further document processing. The shape image indicators and text boxes are formatting and other artifacts from the page before it was OCR-ed. You can obviously delete these regions and reformat what remains so it all flows better. However, that takes time that I (and I imagine that you) often do not have. 

In a pinch, you can copy-and-paste the text in Note Pad and then copy-and-paste back into Word. Note Pad strips formatting, including the items that you are encountering. It also strips other formatting that you may want to retain. It probably works best for small documents whose content is paramount. 

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hi,

i use fine reader 14, jaws 2021, office 16. when i ocr documents, in the
word copy, jaws reads the following kinds of things before the actual text:
a. graphic shape image s-and-so inches by s-and-so inches.
textbox.

This is quite annoying and a distraction. Any way to stop it from reporting
this unnecessary information?

Warmly,
Rahul

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Rahul Bajaj
Attorney, Ira Law
Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford
Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility
Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford
Human Rights Hub
Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme
Court of India
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