Re: [orca-list] was able to install fedora 17

[Simon Eigeldinger <simon eigeldinger vol at>]

hi,

no, NVDA is for Windows. so i used it with a vm and ran the fedora 17 
installer in the vm and ws able to get the stuff that way. all it does 
it takes a screenshot of the actual window and OCRs it with tesseract, 
which is also available for linux.


so orca would also able to do that.

greetings,
simon


Am 02.06.2012 07:17, schrieb Jason White:
> Krishnakant Mane<krmane gmail com>  wrote:
> > Not really meaning to this this off topic, but what is this OCR plugin?
>
> My guess: it captures the video buffer and runs OCR (optical character
> recognition) on it, then presents the output.
>
> Orca can't do this - it doesn't have access to the low-level video. On the
> other hand, when the operating system and applications are free
> software/open-source, it's easier to fix the accessibility at the application
> level than to resort to low-level work-arounds such as off-screen models and
> OCR.
>
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