<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Hi everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I am getting
asked about free tools for OCR and it seems few people know about the Microsoft
Document Imaging tool. It is free and comes with Office 2007 and some earlier
versions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I wrote a How
To document for people using adaptive technology. Keep in mind that this is a
free tool but seems to do a good job for fast and free access to a printed
page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>It is a tagged PDF
document. You can get it from the Karlen Communications web page on Microsoft
Office 2007 accessibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.karlencommunications.com/MicrosoftOfficeAccessibility.html">http://www.karlencommunications.com/MicrosoftOfficeAccessibility.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Please share
this resource.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Cheers, Karen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>