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

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

Hi,

 I use Ubuntu 14.04 with Orca 3.18.1 and thanks to LIOS I scan and read 
my paper post.
Milton

Op 31-01-16 om 06:56 schreef B. Henry:
> 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.