Actually now with JAWS 2018 just go to Windows Explorer, find the file you want to OCR, and highlight it with your arrow key.  Don't open it.  Then hit alt+space and then f, for file.  It'll OCR the file for you.  This should work with PNG, TIF, JPEG, and PDF files.

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Have you given it a try yet? For example, bring up the image and then try JAWS-key + spacebar followed by o and then either d or w. o is for OCR, d is for document (which I know works for PDF's) and w is for window.


Newspapers don't start off with particularly crisp print, so I'm not sure how affective any OCR software will be.


On 08/01/2018 05:23 PM, Duane Farrar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have received two newspaper articles, one from 1945 and the other 
> from 1957, in .PNG format. I am using JAWS 17 on a Windows 7 computer. 
> Is there a way for me to use the OCR feature of JAWS to read the text 
> in these articles?
>
> Thanks,
> Duane
>
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