[gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files

[Humberto]

No, RoboBraille unfortunately, for all our hopes and fantacies, does not 
recognize handwriting at this time and will just output garbage when doing 
OCR on it. but someday it will... just keep dreaming.
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From: "Mike Freeman via gui-talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "'Sandra Spencer'" <sandraspencer1962 at gmail.com>; "'Discussion of the 
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files


>I suspect use of a human reader and a Sewell Raised-line Drawing Kit or
> equivalent will be your best bet.
>
> Mike
>
>
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> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sandra
> Spencer via gui-talk
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:40 AM
> To: 'Humberto'; 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk
> Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files
>
> I have a question for you. My instructor sends me lists of words that have
> the word and then the shorthand version for that word and the shorthand
> version is in handwriting. Will the robo site help me with the 
> handwriting?
> If not, and if you know of some way I can get help with it, please let me
> know.
> My email address is sandraspencer1962 at gmail.com Thank you for any help or
> advice you can give.
> Your friend,
> Sandra
>
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> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Humberto
> via gui-talk
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:17 PM
> To: Curtis Chong; Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk
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> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files
>
> There Is a resource called RoboBraille, which is a web interface tool that
> you can upload files and convert them into accessible formats. It will 
> even
> take images of PDF files and JPEG files that have text in them, and do OCR
> on them. the quality of the OCR is quite exquisite and comparable to many
> big-bicks-paid blindness solutions out there. so if you have time, try 
> going
> to this web site: http://www.robobraille.org/ You can just upload the file
> (it takes several stages, during which your screen reader will update its
> screen and page frames), but the resulted accessible file is emailed to 
> you
> straight to your inbox.
> Given that you just would like to review the form, and don't want to 
> update
> anything, it would be a viable solution, but like others have said, 
> filling
> out forms on PDF files with images and converting them to the most
> accessible format won't do you no hurt but will do so to any privider that
> needs the information as it will probably impugn the layout of the form 
> and
> that is not good. but if you just want to read the information, try the
> above mentioned site. Tkae my word for it, it works just brilliantly. I've
> used it many times myself even for my school assignments that happened to 
> be
> just in inaccessible print.
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> From: "Curtis Chong via gui-talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 6:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files
>
>
>> Louis:
>>
>> As treasurer of our New Mexico affiliate, I have found that the 990 is
>> best reviewed with a reader. It takes too much time to try to OCR the
>> picture of the form. If you must have a solution, I have used ABBYY
>> FineReader Pro, which costs around $170. Less expensively, you can use
>> DocuScan Plus by leasing ($22 a month) Accessibility Anywhere from
>> Serotek.
>>
>> Cordially,
>>
>> Curtis Chong
>>
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>>>From: Louis Maher via gui-talk <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>Sent: Jul 22, 2014 5:19 AM
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>>>List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>, NFB in computer science
>>><nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>Subject: [gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files
>>>
>>>Folks,
>>>
>>>I have been given a form 990 from our affiliate to review.  It is a
>>>pdf file containing images.  What do people recommend for Optical
>>>character recognition of this file.  I really do not want to spend
>>>$1,000 to solve this problem.  The file has 28 pages.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Louis Maher
>>>Phone 713-444-7838
>>>E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
>>>
>>>
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