[nfbcs] What is optical character recognition?

[Nancy Coffman]

There are several optical character recognition programs out there that do 
good recognition.  There are 2 thngs to consider.  Preserving the format of 
a document is fairly rare.  The other consideration is whether or not the 
program has a non-visually accessible interface.  Most scanners come with 
something.  Canon tends to package a lite version of OmniPage.  Although it 
does a fair job on papers, I have not had a lot of luck with books that have 
not been taken apart.  HP also packages an imaging program with OCR with its 
printer/scanners.  TextCloner Pro from www.readingmadeeasy.com is also very 
accessible although the recognition does not match that of Kurzweil and 
OpenBook on some documents.  Again, downloading a trial copy would be your 
best bet.

Nancy Coffman
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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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