OCR software?

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 06-Jul-2009 10:53:31

Does anyone know of any software other than Open Book or Kurzweil 1000 that will scan printed material and read it back to you? Open Book and Kurzweil are much too expensive, so price is also a factor. It should be compatible with an HP 1310 series scanner/printer and run on Windows XP Home and work with Jaws 7.0 if it doesn't have its own accessibility functions built in.

Post 2 by Twinklestar09 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Monday, 06-Jul-2009 11:31:36

I don't know if it will work with the specific scanner you have, but the university I used to attend was using Omnipage Pro, and it worked alright with JAWS. I had went there in 2001, which I think was before JAWS 7.0 was out, so I'm thinking Omnipage Pro should work with JAWS 7.0.

Post 3 by Nitrogen (Zone BBS Addict) on Monday, 06-Jul-2009 13:57:55

Hi,
Another program which is also very good is fine reader pro.
Apparently, openbook combines the best of both worlds as it uses OCR engines from both Omnipage and finereader.
Which is partly, why it is also very accurate when it comes to scanning.