add on link is not pasted boss.

On 19/08/2020, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@...> wrote:

Hi,
Here pasted below is the lion subtitle reader and more documentation. My
question though is, what is the very first combo box used for in lion
settings never mind I figured it out it changes how often OCR is
performed.

What is it
LION is an addon which does Automatic OCr of certain screen portions, at
a
certain interval. Why do I say that it is intelligent? No, not because
I've
written it, nor because the "i" makes for a nice acronym. Since it does
OCR
of the same screen portion multiple times, normally it would read the
same
text multiple times, which is not very nice. So, I implemented a
mechanism
to skip speaking of the text if it seems similar to the previously
recognised text.
What can I do with it?
The main reason I wrote it was to read subtitles. Due to the way it
works,
it can read any subtitles on the screen, including Youtube, Netflix and
other online video sites, subtitles embedded in AVI files, and even live
tV!
Make sure to set the video to full screen when using it, as it works like
sighted eyes do. It needs big text for better performance. The quality
won't
be perfect, try to set the font of the subtitles as large as possible, if
you have the option, and use a high resolution screen. The OCR engine it
uses is not perfect. It may have inferior results on certain images.
Other than that, It can be used to monitor any inaccessible text on the
screen, like video game menus. It won't tell you highlighted text,
unfortunately.
How do I use it?
To launch it with default options, just press NVDA+alt+l. LION will start
OCR of the whole screen at a 1 second interval, speaking only when the
text
changes. Hopefully. :) If you want to customize its behaviour, go to the
NVDA Menu, Preferences, LION settings. For example, a video file might
have
a logo in the upper left corner that gets read along with the subtitle,
and
disrupts the experience. We'll see how to fix this in the next section.
LION has the following settings:
1. OCR interval: how often the program does OCR. Takes values from 0.1
second to 10 seconds.
2. OCR target: specifies the screen portion to OCR. Options are: current
control, current window, navigator object, and full screen
3. Crop pixels from above, below, right, left. In full screen mode, those
four fields allow you to crop sections from the screen from being
scanned.
Those settings work only in full screen and current window modes.
Why is this setting useful? Let's remember the logo example above. Just
crop
10% or so from above to skip the logo, and you won't hear it. Actually,
to
make the recognition faster and less resource intensive, you can crop
like
70% from above, since subtitles are usually found in the lower third of
the
screen.
what's new
version 1.11
Fixed a bug, mainly observed in youtube fullscreen.
version 1.1
1. the crop settings affect the current window mode, too
2. implemented a similarity threshold setting, mainlly useful in games.
LION
always compares the current text with the one which has been spoken
previously. If it thinks the text hasn't changed, it doesn't speak. This
setting controls how aggressive LION is in comparing texts. 0 means all
texts are identical, practically rendering the addon unusable. 1 will
read
all texts, even if they are the same. The default is 0.5.
version 1.0
initial version
Who wrote this, how often will I see updates?
My name is Stefan Moisei, a blind programmer trying to survive in an East
European country, Romania, who has a lot to catch up to get to an
occidental
level. LION, and other blind specific software are just a hobby for me,
developed in my spare time. So, I'm afraid updates won't come too often.
But
if you can code, this is NVDA, so the source is right there. :)

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