[Trainer-Talk] Preferred OCR software recommendation

[Marianne Denning]

I like the pearl camera with jaws. It does a very good job and is quite portable.

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> On Jan 24, 2019, at 7:04 PM, Barbara Johnson via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your interesting observations.  
> I have not found Recognize with JAWS to be more accurate than OpenBook, but
> I'd like to know what kinds of documents you were scanning when you got
> those results.  I was scanning a bill, sent as an "empty" PDF document. 
> In terms of robust reliability, I still find OpenBook an excellent go-to
> program for scanning textbooks and other hard copy reading.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Greg
> Aikens via Trainer-Talk
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 12:28 PM
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> Cc: Greg Aikens <gaikens at cviga.org>
> Subject: [Trainer-Talk] Preferred OCR software recommendation
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm wondering what OCR software you use for teaching and recommend for
> clients to purchase.
> 
> Our center has had Openbook and TextCloner Pro, but I don't believe either
> are actively being developed anymore. I like the simplicity of these
> products but feel they could do better with reliably recreating text
> formatting, white space, etc. Also, the fact that neither has released an
> updated version in quite some time does not indicate to me that they will
> continue to be good solutions. I hate recommending people spend money on
> outdated software.
> 
> I have been playing with JAWS OCR, which I feel is far more accurate than
> Openbook, but don't like that when you copy and paste from the results
> viewer to a word document, you get all kinds of invisible formatting tables
> that makes the document extremely cumbersome to read, unless you go in and
> remove the tables. If anyone knows a work around for this, I would
> appreciate it. I also like that the JAWS OCR will work with the flatbed
> scanner, although it does not support scanning multiple pages unless you
> have a scanner with auto document feed.
> 
> I love and teach my clients to use RoboBraille, but know that this is not a
> good solution for sensitive info, such as client documentation, etc.
> 
> We recently purchased a copy of OmniPage, which seems to be perfectly
> accessible but probably a little more complicated than what the average user
> needs.
> 
> I would love to hear what you guys are using.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Greg Aikens
> Senior Assistive Technology Instructor
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