[NFBCS] Image in email

[Louis Maher]

Hello Steve,

Two things which might help:
Set JAWS to recognize all graphics. Secondly, you might save the email as an html file, and your graphic might be broken out as a separate file that could perhaps be OCRed.



Regards
Louis Maher
Phone: 713-444-7838
Email: ljmaher03 at outlook.com

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Image in email

Beth and Tracy,

I get images a lot on my work emails, too.  I would appreciate comments from others as well.  With Outlook, even when doing my work email so images are downloaded, that screen shots just are not detected by JAWS, either.  I don’t get any kind of graphic or image identifier.  If I reply to the note and then look at the original within my reply, I do find the images very clearly identified.  You might see if that helps, Tracy.  I have also have very poor luck with doing OCR on the screen within emails.  Sometimes I can print out an email and look at it with the Optacon and the image seems pretty clear, but JAWS doesn’t seem to pick it up.

I have had success copying the image into Word and then doing OCR on the Window within word.  Saving it to a PDF probably would also work, but it just seems there should be a better way to deal with this and I suspect I am just missing something.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Image in email

Hi Tracy,

Unfortunately, I get these type of email messages at work all the time. Perhaps someone put a screen shot in the middle of your message because sometimes when that happens, the message appears blank. Other times, the message will say “graphic 25” or mention a JPG or PNG file. Since you don’t have that, perhaps try the JAWS OCR to read the screen, insert space, then o, then s for screen. If there is an image there, JAWS should read it. Not sure if NVDA has a similar feature.

Hope this helps. 😊

Beth

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Subject: [NFBCS] Image in email

I received an email about a report I need to write, and apparently it contained an image or some sort, including some data I need for the specs.  But I saw no indication of any sort that there was an image, or where it might be, except someone else referring to it being there.
How can I tell if an email contains an image?  If I suspect it does, do I copy the whole email to Word, then save as PDF, then run Jaws OCR on that PDF?  Is that the right process?
I sent the email to a colleague, and she saw the data no problem, but I don’t see it at all.
Tracy

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