NVDA OCR and what it presents afterward
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Marisane Moruthanyana
Hi gurus
I trust you are well. I am trying to cope. I am troubled by nvda. I cannot understand why nvda does not show up all the information even after the OCR process has been made. It says that the document has been recognised, but only a sentence or a page is shown up. Why is that? How do I make it do that? Please help. Wally from SA
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Gene
NVDA only recognizes what is on the screen. JAWS can recognize an entire document but that isn't a capability of NVDA.
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Gene
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From: Marisane Moruthanyana Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2020 7:16 AM To: nvda Subject: [nvda] your help Hi gurus I trust you are well. I am trying to cope. I am troubled by nvda. I cannot understand why nvda does not show up all the information even after the OCR process has been made. It says that the document has been recognised, but only a sentence or a page is shown up. Why is that? How do I make it do that? Please help. Wally from SA
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Per documentation whichI hope is present in the manual, the document only shown 1 screen at a time. If and only if the document can show up on 1 screen will the whole thing show up else you only see the screen with maybe that one sentence that ocr was able to capture. -- Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP. . For more info go to our website. Check out my adventures with a shadow machine. to subscribe to the feed click here and you can also follow us on twitter Our discord is where you will know when we go live on twitch. Feel free to give the channel a follow and see what is up there. For stream archives, products you can buy and more visit my main lbry page and my tffp lbry page You will also be able to buy some of my products and eBooks there. Finally, to become a patron and help support the podcast go here
On 22 Nov 2020, at 5:16, Marisane Moruthanyana wrote:
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Topic has been retitled for clarity and archival purposes. Please make ongoing responses to messages with the new title.
I actually did not know that NVDA OCR presents a page at a time. This is most likely because my standard advice is to do OCR processing before opening a document, usually PDF, in a screen reader. Using that technique creates a text layer for the entire document prior to it ever being handed to the screen reader, and you get a result that's the one you're asking for here. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041 If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind. ~ Thomas Reed Powell
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Marisane Moruthanyana
Morning Brian
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That is what I want, but I do not know the technique to do that. If you know how to do OCR processing before opening the document, please help. Wally
On 11/22/20, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote:
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Marisane Moruthanyana
Morning Gene
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Does it mean then that one should go to the next page and start the OCR processing all over again? Shoo! that is a painstaking exercise, especially when the document is long. Wally
On 11/22/20, Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@gmail.com> wrote:
Per documentation whichI hope is present in the manual, the document
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Resending since the webpage where you download PDF-XChange Viewer has changed since originally written. Link is now correct.
The question of OCR scanning Image Scanned PDFs that one knows contain text comes up again and again. If you don't want to invest some huge amount of money in a fully dedicated specialty OCR suite there is an excellent option available for free from Tracker Software: PDF-XChange Viewer. This software is not 100% accessible, but what you need to perform an OCR scan on an Image Scanned PDF is. You have nothing to lose but a few minutes time to test out either PDF-XChange Viewer (which uses the "old Windows interface style" and I know to be accessible for running OCR) or the free edition of PDF-XChange Editor to check out whether it suits your needs. I personally prefer PDF-XChange Viewer. Here are the step-by-step instructions I wrote for a client who was a grad student who kept having old image scanned PDFs assigned for reading by various professors on how to OCR process them using PDF-XChange Viewer: Used when you receive a PDF that was scanned without Optical Character Recognition. For reading stick to Adobe Reader or other reader of your choice as PDF-XChange Viewer is not 100% accessible. 1. Open PDF-XChange Viewer from your start menu or the desktop. 2. ALT+F, O Open a file, you’ll need to know where it is and navigate there in the Open Dialog, which is very much like File Explorer. 3. CTRL+SHIFT+C Perform optical character recognition on the file. This will be quick for small files, 20 pages or less, but will take some time for very large files, hundreds of pages. Listen for the process to complete. 4. ALT+F, S Save the file over itself with the OCR text now included. If you wish to save the file under a different name and keep the original use ALT+F, A Save As to do this instead. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041 If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind. ~ Thomas Reed Powell
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Gene
I haven't seen it discussed and I haven't used the OCR feature in the program. It sounds as though that is what you will have to do but there are alternatives to using NVDA, which I expect will be discussed.
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I use Openbook but that isn't a practical alternative in your case and I haven't followed the discussions about free alternatives carefully. Gene
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From: Marisane Moruthanyana Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2020 5:34 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] your help Morning Gene Does it mean then that one should go to the next page and start the OCR processing all over again? Shoo! that is a painstaking exercise, especially when the document is long. Wally On 11/22/20, Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@gmail.com> wrote: Per documentation whichI hope is present in the manual, the document
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One addition with regard to PDF-XChange Viewer's OCR function:
The OCR functionality supports a base language set of English, French, German and Spanish. Additional language extension packages are available here. I once had a client using it on Swedish texts, which is one of the optional languages available. The language extension packages are also free. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041 If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind. ~ Thomas Reed Powell
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Marisane Moruthanyana
Thank you, sir.
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I will test that.
On 11/23/20, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote:
One addition with regard to PDF-XChange Viewer's OCR function:
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Quentin Christensen
Hi Wally, I'm afraid yes, NVDA is bound by the limitations of Windows OCR. If you do regularly need to run OCR on longer documents, it might be worth considering a full OCR program, which will be able to do fancier things as well. Also, NVDA's OCR abilities aside, if you are regularly receiving documents you need to run OCR on, it would be worth raising that with the people sending the documents out. When creating documents is often the easiest point to make them accessible, and in many cases, requires only a small change to workflow to achieve. In the meantime, Sarah, good prompt, I did go and checked our user guide and it could be improved in this area. I have created the following issue to put forward a change: Kind regards Quentin.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:34 AM Marisane Moruthanyana <marisanem@...> wrote: Morning Gene --
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mcLeod stinnett
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from mack Wally, you can always keep a non activated copy of jaws on your system and use their o c r function. you can use it for forty min. before you are asked to re-boot.
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Quentin Christensen
As an alternative to a commercial OCR like Abbyy FineReader, has anyone tried any of the free OCR programs around and if so can you report on their effectiveness? A quick Google search brings up a number of options, but I must admit, I haven't looked at any yet. Quentin.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:14 PM mcLeod stinnett <macks75205@...> wrote:
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