[Athen] [EXTERNAL] Screenshot Reader Alternatives

[Robert Spangler]

Hello, thanks for this suggestion, but that is not quite the same thing as
the screenshot reader.  The screenshot reader enables someone to draw a
square around any portion of text on the screen to have it instantly
processed and read out loud.

Thanks,
Robert


On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:12 AM Alexis Delevett <alexis_delevett at cuesta.edu>
wrote:


> OneNote has a copy text from picture feature

> <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/copy-text-from-pictures-and-file-printouts-using-ocr-in-onenote-93a70a2f-ebcd-42dc-9f0b-19b09fd775b4>

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> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Athen] Screenshot Reader Alternatives

>

> Hello,

>

> I had a student ask me for alternatives to Read and Write, and while I

> know of many, he was particularly interested in the screenshot reader

> feature.  I would imagine that Kurzweil 3000 would have this feature, but

> are there other alternatives, perhaps free apps, that have a screenshot

> reader feature?

>

> The student just got his first position, and he said that his company

> might have security concerns.  In the case of Read and Write, does

> screenshot reader send images to Texthelp servers for processing, or is OCR

> processing done locally on the computer?  This would seem to be the most

> pressing security concern.

>

> Thanks,

> Robert

>

>

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Office of Learning Resources
Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC)
Roesch Library Room: 023
Phone: 937-229-2066
For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay)
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