nvda@nvda.groups.io | Questions about embedded photos in email

Pranav Lal

#27612

Hi Deborah,

If you navigate graphic by graphic, then yes, you will know of all images. You can use the new OCR feature in NVDA to check each graphic.  However, I use the following script to pull images from outlook and recognize them. Keep the message that you want to check open. You can modify the below script to save the images into a folder so that you have better control. 

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Name:        module1
# Purpose:
#
# Author:      Pranav Lal
#
# Created:     27/03/2015
# Copyright:   (c) user 2015
# Licence:     <your licence>

import win32com.client
import os
from PIL import Image

import pytesseract
import imghdr
import tempfile

def isImage(fp):
        result=''
        try:
            result=imghdr.what(fp)
        except:
            pass
        return result
def recogniseFile(fp):
    img=Image.open(fp)
    img1=img.convert('L')

    print(pytesseract.image_to_string(img1))


def main():
        pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
    o=win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
    tp=tempfile.gettempdir()
    curSel=o.ActiveExplorer()
    curMSG=curSel.Selection.Item(1)
    attachments=curMSG.Attachments
    for attachment in attachments:
        t=os.path.join(tp, attachment.FileName)
        attachment.SaveAsFile(t)
        r=isImage(t)
        if not r:
         pass
        else:
         recogniseFile(t)

        os.remove(t)

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-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Deborah Armstrong
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2017 1:00 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Questions about embedded photos in email

I'm editing a newsletter for an all-volunteer organization. Everyone keeps sending me pictures embedded  in email rather than attachments.

My husband, who is sighted explained that they just drag and drop the 
picture in to the email and that's why it shows as part of the email 
rather than an attachment.

I have someone else doing the layout, but I'm frustrated that I might be 
missing some of the photos. I mean can I be absolutely sure that a 
screen reader will tell me when a photo is there and let me right-click 
on it to save it as a separate file?

I use Windows 10 mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird. I'm not 
entirely happy     with any of them; I use Outlook and JAWS at work with 
fewer access glitches.

But at home it's NVDA and Narrator on Windows 10 with these clients.

What are thoughts from others on the list?

--Debee

Brian's Mail list account

#27405

Trouble is that increasingly the ways for displaying email  are so numerous. Html is fine as far as it goes, but so many now have at the top. display in your web browser click here in them.
I won't have any truck with these herberts who cannot be bothered to send text versions or link to external web resources to get the pictures when you look at the email. I just either send them back or block them. Often they come in from list bots at some company or other and I normally send them a little note explaining why their default setting is crap.
Brian

bglists@...
Sent via blueyonder.
Please address personal email to:-
briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff'
in the display name field.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adriani Botez" <adriani.botez@...>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2017 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Questions about embedded photos in email

Hi,

That‘s why I currently requested an add-on which would allow to navigate between embeded objects in browse mode in outlook by pressing a letter like in browsers. I hope that request is being processed from any skilled developer.

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 08.10.2017 um 21:29 schrieb Deborah Armstrong <debee@...>:

I'm editing a newsletter for an all-volunteer organization. Everyone keeps sending me pictures embedded  in email rather than attachments.

My husband, who is sighted explained that they just drag and drop the picture in to the email and that's why it shows as part of the email rather than an attachment.

I have someone else doing the layout, but I'm frustrated that I might be missing some of the photos. I mean can I be absolutely sure that a screen reader will tell me when a photo is there and let me right-click on it to save it as a separate file?

I use Windows 10 mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird. I'm not entirely happy     with any of them; I use Outlook and JAWS at work with fewer access glitches.

But at home it's NVDA and Narrator on Windows 10 with these clients.

What are thoughts from others on the list?

--Debee

Brian's Mail list account

#27404

PS I always set security on my emails so pictures are not displayed at all as so often they bring them in from remote links.
Brian

bglists@...
Sent via blueyonder.
Please address personal email to:-
briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff'
in the display name field.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deborah Armstrong" <debee@...>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2017 8:29 PM
Subject: [nvda] Questions about embedded photos in email

I'm editing a newsletter for an all-volunteer organization. Everyone keeps sending me pictures embedded  in email rather than attachments.

My husband, who is sighted explained that they just drag and drop the picture in to the email and that's why it shows as part of the email rather than an attachment.

I have someone else doing the layout, but I'm frustrated that I might be missing some of the photos. I mean can I be absolutely sure that a screen reader will tell me when a photo is there and let me right-click on it to save it as a separate file?

I use Windows 10 mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird. I'm not entirely happy     with any of them; I use Outlook and JAWS at work with fewer access glitches.

But at home it's NVDA and Narrator on Windows 10 with these clients.

What are thoughts from others on the list?

--Debee

Brian's Mail list account

#27403

Oh dear. personally you need to be sure the photo has a meaningful file name and an alt tag for description
Personally I send all such emails back to source and ask for plain text as so often jpgs are in fact pictures of text in themselves and ocring it creates errors that the lazy sender could easily have avoided by simply sending the text in the first place.
Brian

bglists@...
Sent via blueyonder.
Please address personal email to:-
briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff'
in the display name field.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deborah Armstrong" <debee@...>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2017 8:29 PM
Subject: [nvda] Questions about embedded photos in email

I'm editing a newsletter for an all-volunteer organization. Everyone keeps sending me pictures embedded  in email rather than attachments.

My husband, who is sighted explained that they just drag and drop the picture in to the email and that's why it shows as part of the email rather than an attachment.

I have someone else doing the layout, but I'm frustrated that I might be missing some of the photos. I mean can I be absolutely sure that a screen reader will tell me when a photo is there and let me right-click on it to save it as a separate file?

I use Windows 10 mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird. I'm not entirely happy     with any of them; I use Outlook and JAWS at work with fewer access glitches.

But at home it's NVDA and Narrator on Windows 10 with these clients.

What are thoughts from others on the list?

--Debee

Adriani Botez

#27385

Hi,

That‘s why I currently requested an add-on which would allow to navigate between embeded objects in browse mode in outlook by pressing a letter like in browsers. I hope that request is being processed from any skilled developer.

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

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Am 08.10.2017 um 21:29 schrieb Deborah Armstrong <debee@...>:

I'm editing a newsletter for an all-volunteer organization. Everyone keeps sending me pictures embedded  in email rather than attachments.

My husband, who is sighted explained that they just drag and drop the picture in to the email and that's why it shows as part of the email rather than an attachment.

I have someone else doing the layout, but I'm frustrated that I might be missing some of the photos. I mean can I be absolutely sure that a screen reader will tell me when a photo is there and let me right-click on it to save it as a separate file?

I use Windows 10 mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird. I'm not entirely happy     with any of them; I use Outlook and JAWS at work with fewer access glitches.

But at home it's NVDA and Narrator on Windows 10 with these clients.

What are thoughts from others on the list?

--Debee

Deborah Armstrong <debee@...>

#27383

I'm editing a newsletter for an all-volunteer organization. Everyone keeps sending me pictures embedded  in email rather than attachments.

My husband, who is sighted explained that they just drag and drop the picture in to the email and that's why it shows as part of the email rather than an attachment.

I have someone else doing the layout, but I'm frustrated that I might be missing some of the photos. I mean can I be absolutely sure that a screen reader will tell me when a photo is there and let me right-click on it to save it as a separate file?

I use Windows 10 mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird. I'm not entirely happy     with any of them; I use Outlook and JAWS at work with fewer access glitches.

But at home it's NVDA and Narrator on Windows 10 with these clients.

What are thoughts from others on the list?

--Debee