[Athen] Free and Reliable OCR

[Karlen Communications]

I wrote a how to document on using the free Microsoft Office Document
Imaging tool

http://www.karlencommunications.com/MicrosoftOfficeAccessibility.html

 

This is pretty good OCR as it uses the Nuance OmniPage Pro sort of lite OCR
engine I think...you can upgrade to OmniPage Pro from Office which is why I
think this.

 

It is available in previous versions of Microsoft Office as well as 2007.

 

You can easily send the recognized text to Word and use Narrator to read it
or other tools.

 

Cheers, Karen

 

From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Dave M. Thomas
Sent: January-26-10 4:09 PM
To: Athen at athenpro.org
Subject: [Athen] Free and Reliable OCR

 

Hi!

 

Does anyone know of free or low-cost AND reliable OCR software? A professor
attended a presentation I did on assistive technology and is interested in
running much of her image files through OCR and then listening to them. The
presentation was all about Universal Design for Learning.

 

Thank you!

 

Dave

 

 

Dave Thomas, Assistive Technology Specialist

University of Denver Disability Services Program

2050 E. Evans Ave., Suite #30

Denver, CO 80208

dave.m.thomas at studentlife.du.edu

303-871-2269 (phone)

303-871-3939 (Fax)

 

 

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