[Trainer-Talk] OCR tools

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

google docs will OCR and then jaws OCR of course

* Dr Denise M Robinson*

*Denise M Robinson, TVI, PhD*

Specialist-Technology/Blind Skills | Teacher of the Blind and Visually
Impaired
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On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:36 PM Ashley via Trainer-Talk <
trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

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>
> Hi all,
>
> I used OCR for many years since high school and am a young adult now.
> I have used Openbook primarily but have on occasion at other places used
> something else; I think it was Text Cloner Pro.
>
> Are there other OCR tools now for the pc or stand alone which do the same
> thing and are the same price or less expensive?
> I do not think the Sara from Freedom Scientific is still around.
>
> The only other two stand alone OCR solutions I know of are the Simon
> Reader and the Eye Pal.
>
> I think Openbook is okay but have often wanted something with more
> accuracy. Openboook does not always pick up paragraph breaks in books.
> I also do not always want to be by a pc so I'm interested in stand alone
> devices.
> I want to recommend a simple OCR solution to friends and acquaintenances
> too who may not have the tech skills for the pc version.
> Please tell me if the equipment you  suggest can save files in different
> formats such as daisy, Word, and RTF. Please let me know if it has other
> features in it such as a book reader for talking books.
>
> New devices are coming out all the time. Hmm, Is there something simple
> yet better than Openboley
>
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