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Re: NVDA and desktop keyboards without Home and End keys

Greetings, I picked up one of the K780 keyboards yesterday. I can report that this keyboard works very well with NVDA. The key sequences needed to produce Home, End, Page Up

By Shawn Bever · #13575 ·

Re: who knows this problem?

If you are sure then you should ask the manufacturers if they have dlls for nvda or if you have updated drivers you should email the devs with this info I doubt they can keep tabs on everything all at

By Shaun Everiss · #13574 ·

Re: NVDA problem with hashtag symbol

We have information about all sounds and exclamations here: http://www.acapela-group.com/voice-smileys/ Linked to this page there is a huge list of all sounds and exclamations, per language and per

By Paolo Leva · #13573 ·

Re: NVDA problem with hashtag symbol

YES! This is the solution, by commenting away this line I get the tags to work. Thanks for your help!

By Paolo Leva · #13572 ·

Re: who knows this problem?

hello Jacob, thanks for your answer. i know already what to do that windows not will reboot in a error situation but i want to find the cause that it happens. i think, there is an error in the

By P. Otter · #13571 ·

Re: Forcing an NVDA Search rather than a built-in search function

By the way, as I'm confusing myself a bit with that last post because I'm doing a Gmail search first followed by an NVDA search to find a control, then attempting to do this again, I thought I'd post

By Brian Vogel · #13570 ·

Re: Forcing an NVDA Search rather than a built-in search function

Well, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that using INS+CTRL+F in both Firefox and Chrome is invoking the NVDA search now that I've rebooted. The bad news is that what NVDA finds

By Brian Vogel · #13569 ·

Re: OCR software?

If you're looking for OCR specifically for PDF files, have a look at this message I posted earlier in the year. -- Brian He discloses the workings of a mind to which incoherence lends an illusion

By Brian Vogel · #13568 ·

Re: OCR software?

hi. i know only google OCr -- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the

By zahra · #13567 ·

Re: NVDA problem with hashtag symbol

I was able to get it working by going into the symbol pronunciation and setting the hash mark to always be sent to the synth and replacing it with a blank space in the replace field but this is

By Brandon Cross <bcross3286@...> · #13566 ·

Re: OCR software?

According to what I've seen on another list, Empowerment Zone has been down for a number of months. As I said in an earlier message, don't bother with the program unless you want to use it as

By Gene · #13565 ·

Re: OCR software?

You don't have to go through all that. There are free OCR engines. I don't know how good they are but the one used in PDF to Txt converter is one of the free ones. You aren't gaining anything by

By Gene · #13564 ·

Re: OCR software?

Does anyone have a link to this PDF2TXT installer? I am finding a lot of third party installers that I am sure have adware in them. I installed Unchecky to combat this, but still!

By Robert Kingett · #13563 ·

Re: OCR software?

I remember that program. I have Kurzweil now, but I didn't know you could use it to do OCR.

By kelby carlson <kelbycarlson@...> · #13562 ·

Re: OCR software?

It never worked very well for me either. The best free and open source software I know of is part of the free program from Empowerment Zone called PDF 2 TXT. It will take a programmer to take it

By Roger Stewart · #13561 ·

Re: Forcing an NVDA Search rather than a built-in search function

Interesting. I've also seen problems while a big update is downloading as well. -- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now

By Quentin Christensen · #13560 ·

Re: Forcing an NVDA Search rather than a built-in search function

Gentlemen, Thank you again for your responses. I now believe, though I have not yet had time to test it out, that this may be "pending update" related. I often get some really weird

By Brian Vogel · #13559 ·

Re: Forcing an NVDA Search rather than a built-in search function

One other thing to double check is that num lock is off when using the number pad insert. Many users leave it off all the time (in which case they may not think to check if it inadvertently gets

By Quentin Christensen · #13558 ·

OCR software?

Does anyone know of any free or open source software? I can't seem to get the OCR add on to work. Any suggestions?

By Robert Kingett · #13557 ·

Re: Forcing an NVDA Search rather than a built-in search function

Thanks for the replies. Gene, I was thinking that it might be possible that if I was still sitting in the edit box where you enter the search criteria that I might be in focus mode, rather than

By Brian Vogel · #13556 ·

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