[nfbcs] Ocr for Mac

[Steve Jacobson]

Greg,

Thank you for responding.  OCR is such a buzz word just now on all
platforms.  We now see it included in Windows 10 and in Microsoft's SeeingAI
app.  It is being expanded in JAWS 2018 and it is now included in NVDA.  I
think it is important to understand that there are different levels of
information that are provided.  Sometimes, all we need is to get the text.
My question was simply to understand the current level of this product.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Not at the moment but if you need things like that I would urge you to
contact the developer I have found him very responsive. I mean he added
Cherokee for me after all.

HE has started doing a number of improvements to make Tessa able to act as a
sort of reading system with a one button scan and read for example.

In the end Tessa is designed to capture text not formatting and such and it
does its function very well.

Greg

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:24 AM, Steve Jacobson via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Is this software able to capture any formatting information?  I am not
> saying it has to capture formatting, but I have noticed that there are a
> number of apps and software solutions for OCR, and some do better at
telling
> us about the text that is captured than others.  There are situations when
> we don't need to know anything about font size or if the information
appears
> to be tabular, but there are cases where this is important, and I am just
> interested where Tessa fits into this picture.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> Yes, Tessa (in the App store
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tessa-ocr/id997729654?mt=12) is
inexpensive
> (9.99 with a free version for English)
> 
> It supports an amazing array of langauges including some found no where
else
> like Charokee. The developer is very responsive to suggestions in
particular
> accessibility issue and will add them very quickly.
> 
> This is a basic OCR program and because of that it is remarkably accurate.
> 
> Greg
> 
>> On Aug 31, 2017, at 8:37 AM, David W Bundy via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a good OCR package for Mac compatible with voiceover?
>> 
>> David W Bundy
>> West Columbia, SC 
>> bundy at pobox.com
>> Sent from my iPhone
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