[NFBCS] Access Tips

[Steve Jacobson]

Curtis,

I often have this problem and have solved it by following some of your steps.  What I don't get, and perhaps you know the answer to this, is why doing OCR on the email window doesn't even provide any sign that the graphic is there.  If I print out the note and look at it with the Optacon, the printing on the imbedded image is very clear and readable.  In fact, I would say in general that I have found doing OCR on the window not to be all that helpful.  In all fairness, I have found that it is useful on occasion.  The process you have outlined is a good one, and I wonder how much time we are all collectively spending on this without knowing why.  Any thoughts?

Best regards,

Steve

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Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 9:27 AM
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Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Access Tips


People who send out email oftentimes like to imbed images of data into the
email-data that results from something in Windows called a print screen.
What they do is to print the screen to the Windows clipboard and then paste
the image into the email. The place where I live frequently does this when
things like restaurant menus are sent out via email.

Unfortunately, for JAWS users, there is no indication while reading the
email that there is a graphic imbedded in the message. So, unless you know
that something should be there, you might well miss a critical piece of
information that somebody wants to send to you.

One way to know whether or not an email contains an imbedded graphic is to
select the entire message body (press Control A), copy it to the clipboard
(Control C), and then pasting the entire thing into a blank Word document.
In this way, you will know (because JAWS will tell you) that there are some
graphics n the message.

Now that you have pasted the message into Word, you should save this as a
PDF file. Once that is done, you can use JAWS Convenient OCR to perform
optical character recognition against the PDF file. Using File Explorer,
focus on the PDF file. Now, press Shift F10 to bring up the context menu.
Arrow down to Convenient OCR With JAWS and press Enter. In a few seconds, a
window will open up containing the extracted text.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong


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