Re: [orca-list] Use Linux as a daily driver

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

The only place you may have trouble, and that is a weak point for many orca users is OCR.
The free solutions use the same ocr engine that NVDA's ocr plug-in uses, and one more that may be better or 
not depending on language/document.
There are some other solutions, a web-based ocr service that charges by the page I think, but I have no 
experience. 
I do not know if there is some other non-free Linux OCR program one can  buy, nor if it is accessible.
There is a good program called lios one can inistall that provides some useful features like auto rotation to 
assist when you do not know which side 
should go up.
Also there is a relatively new program called ocrdesktop that works something like NVDA's ocr add-on, but 
with some powerful extras. 
It is only in Arch-Linux repositories at this point I think, but can probably be built for most distros.
I recommend getting chrome with the chromevox extension as an alternative to Orca with firefox, but Orca has 
really stepped up  its online game over the 
last year and a half. Most sites work very well with firefox and Orca. 
Last I checked it seemed that gmail worked well, but I find it webmail tedious and slow compared with a well 
set up email client so do not keep up with 
this. 
I've used Linujx almost exclusively for years and OCR is almost the only thing that I really ever need to 
start windows for, and as I do little of that 
I go months with out ever starting a windows box.




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     B.H.
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  Øyvind Lode wrote:
Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:23:10PM +0100

> Hi all:
>
> I want to give Linux a chance as a daily driver.
> I have a workstation that I can use for testing out different Linux distros.
> If all goes well I'd love to switch to Linux as my main OS on my laptop as well.
>
> My requirements:
>
> * Using the web is important.
> I particularly need to use banking and the gmail interface.
>
> * Email - see above.
> I use the Gmail standard view to manage my email and it works great on
> Windows with Firefox and NVDA.
> Of course I can go back to use a email client like Thunderbird if Orca
> does not handle the gmail interface to my satisfaction.
> However, I really prefer the webmail approach.
>
> * Use the terminal effectively; especially remote admin work via ssh.
>
> * OCR
> I currently use ABBYY FineReader on Windows and it's a great solution.
>
> How well does Linux/Orca perform with the above requirements?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Øyvind
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