[Trainer-Talk] Preferred OCR software recommendation

[Kevin Athey]

Hello all.
Kurzweil Educational Systems, the same software that was precursor to
the KNFB Reader on IOS devices?  I learned that software when
receiving training back in 2006.  I believe that they are coming out
with a version for Windows 10.  I could be wrong.  Here is a link to
the website.  https://www.kurzweiledu.com/k3000-firefly/overview.html
Best Regards,
Kevin Athey

On 1/24/19, Greg Aikens via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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 outdated software.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
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