[Athen] Arabic Screen Reading and OCR

[Ron Stewart]

Good evening there are Arabic language engines available for both JAWS and
HAL.  As far as Arabic OCR packages go Ibsar from Aramedia may be the only
game in town. 

 

Ron Stewart

 

From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of CUTLER_ELLEN
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:51 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] Arabic Screen Reading and OCR

 

Hello,

 

We have a blind student who will be taking Arabic 1. Although he does not
use Braille, he is an experienced JAWS user. The only screen reader and OCR
software I have found is Ibsar. It has an Arabic/English TTS engine and can
OCR bilingual (Arabic/English) documents.  Have any of you had experience
with Ibsar? Do you know of any other ways to provide access to writing and
reading Arabic for people who are blind?

 

Thanks very much,

 

Ellen

 

 

Ellen Cutler

Santa Monica College

Disabled Student Services, High Tech Training Center

1900 Pico Blvd.

Santa Monica, CA 90405

310.434-4496

cutler_ellen at smc.edu

 

 

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