[nfbcs] What is optical character recognition?

[E.J. Zufelt]

Good evening,

I actually prefer using Abbyy FineReader which is significantly less  
expensive than Openbook or Kurzweil and can create accessible MS Word,  
PDF, or a number of other formats.  The OCR engine used in FineReader  
is also used in Openbook (I believe) and Kurzweil.

I believe that there is a trial version that will perform OCR on a  
limited number of pages on the company's web-site http://finereader.abbyy.com/

HTH,
Everett

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On 12-Apr-09, at 1:44 AM, Bryan Schulz wrote:

> hi,
>
> by itself, it's what a copy machine does.
> a light bar passes under the piece of paper and creates an exact  
> image of the printed page.
> if you want to read/have the image spoken, that's where most of the  
> expense comes in and you will nead a software package to interpret/ 
> convert the image to manageable text.
> the software runs about 1,000 so ask for a demo of open book from  
> freedom scientific or kurzweil from humanware.
>
> Bryan Schulz
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