Re: More About JAWS 2018 OCR Feature
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Gene
Another question about the JAWS OCR is that we
don't know if you can adjust it. Openbook has all sorts of settings for
adjustment. If the JAWS OCR doesn't have such adjustments, it may be fine
for a good deal of work but may not do nearly as well as Openbook when difficult
scanning conditions are encountered.
Also, and I don't know if it's true, but on a list I
follow, someone said that Omnipage is going to be used by JAWS. Omnipage
used to have a decolumnization bug which caused text to be randomly misplaced
when decolumnizing pages with columns or when scanning two pages
simultaneously. I don't know if it's been fixed, but the but was in the
program for a long time. Openbook uses more than one
scanning engine but the last time I read about this, it uses Fine Reader to
decolumnize text, thus avoiding the Omnipage decolumnization bug.
We'll have to see what wpeople
say as they test the feature.
Gene
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From: Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] More About JAWS 2018 OCR Feature Yes, I heard that too. They really passed over the scanner and pushed hard on Pearl. I have an Epson scanner and the drivers for Window ten are on their web site. As I said, I finagled a copy of Open Book ffor one fifty as I had a copy at work. I really liked open book and depending on how jaws does ocr, I maiy stick with open book. It’s a fine program. Jeff
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