Harry,
That's a noble idea. First, you have to understand a bit about the
processes that are taking place for scanning to turn the information into
speech. When information arrives into your computer from the scanner, it is
in a picture 'image' format. To recognize the text (letters, words etc.)
inside this picture, software is needed. Remember a picture can be reduced
to formations of dots on a grid (at least that's one way of looking at it).
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the name of the process that analyzes
the picture image and makes sense of text it finds therein. It's a pretty
complicated process.
Another way of looking at what you're asking about, is that OpenBook is
precisely what you're asking for, right? It translates the scanned image
and reads it aloud without any other speech program needed.
Hope this helps.
-Ed
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Subject: reading print with just a screen reader like window eyes with
just a scanner
Hi folks,
Wanted to post this to more than 1 list because I need answers here.
I have 2 clients who use Window Eyes for the first client, and the other
uses Narator for a screen reader.
What I want to do is I want to help them not to have to buy something like
Kurzweil or open book, etc. to read. Why can't they just scan something
with a scanner and read it using Window Eyes or Narator?
I tried this in Window Eyes tonight. I use the Optic Pro scanner. I
brought up Window Eyes, then I went to programs, then went to my Plustec
scanner, then I went to recognita ocr and hit the letter r for read. It
scanned the document, but when I tried to read it in Window Eyes, using the
up and down arrow keys, it spoke a weird language, not english. It was like
from another country or something. Now, when I use my open book or
kurzweil, it scans it and reads it in english.
So, tell me step by step how I can get a scanner to scan and read back in
english a printed document without having to buy open book, or kurzweil or
vip by spending $1000?
There's got to be a way to make a screen reader do what a program like open
book, etc. can do. We all know that Window Eyes or Narator can do word
processing in notepad, or in wordpad.
take care,
Harry
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