with the nvda OCR addon you can
1. OCR the current control weather its the whole screen or just a window
or button.
2. select and copy any OCR results to the clipboard.
3. route the mouse to controls that have been OCR'ed and do stuff with
them like left and right click double click and more.
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On 1/27/2015 7:24 PM, chrys87 wrote:
> Thanks, its just a prototype for now :).
> i dont know if i can get the position of the text in the window with
> tesseract (so we can set the mouse to this position for example). Ill
> take a look in this.
> if you find this usefull, just let me know how to improve that.ill
> give a try.
> can you use the controlls with NVDA or jfw? what can you do already
> with this addons? sorry i never used it bevore.
> i m also not realy sure how to provide the information to the user
> (maybe in a box like orcas "list of..." featrue in the browsers? so i
> speak the content for now and set it to the clipboard.
>
> by the way... tesseract is an amazing software. it also does an layout
> "scan" by itself. this is realy solid since the last two versions.
>
> i m really impressed.
>
> Am 27.01.2015 um 23:41 schrieb B. Henry:
>> This is a very important function for some situations. I used NVDA's
>> ocr add-on some when it first came out. What would be great is if one
>> could use
>> controls that one can see with the ocr. I have not tested this, so if
>> this is already possible, congrats!
>> I'd forgotten about this, but I'd thought this would be a very good
>> and inportant addition ever since testing NVDA, and hearing of a
>> similar function in
>> jfw as well.
>> Thanks for sharing.
>>
>>
>>
>
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