[Athen] Web based OCR with Zoning?

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Eric et al
Throwing out a possible solution. We had a number of student workers in our
adaptive lab who we had set up with off-site login access to our AT lab
computers with the OCR software and other text revision software we had
available. We liked this because we (administrators) could easily track
their hours and didn't have to buy extra software for the student workers
to use. They liked it because it allowed them to work outside of the
campus' open hours and outside of their class hours.

I used a utility called logmein to get access (I was an administrator in
the system). I've also had success having the DSS AT software loaded on the
college servers and having IT set us up with open portal access. Both ABBYY
FineReader and Omnipage Pro work in the open portal environment.

Either are worth exploring in your situation, I think.

Good luck!
Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type

Portland OR
foreigntype at gmail.com
480-984-0034

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 1:47 PM Matson, Eric (ecmatson at uidaho.edu) <
ecmatson at uidaho.edu> wrote:


> Hey all,

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> Most of what I’m using OmniPage for is readings instructors have scanned

> and uploaded to BBLearn.  I have two computers set up in our office for

> students to do the converting and editing, but with COVID, we aren’t

> letting them work from the office. I limped through last fall by doing the

> zoning for the students, then sending them the word files to edit, but

> wondering if there’s any web based options out there.

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> Our IT Dept won’t let me buy licenses to install software on my student

> employees personal computers, and I don’t have the budget to set them all

> up with a laptop. I haven’t had a chance to do a good search of what’s

> available yet, figured I’d ask to see if anyone knows of a good option and

> save some time.

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> Thanks,

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