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

[Øyvind Lode <oyvind lode gmail com>]

Hello all:

I've just installed Debian and so far so good.

I'm running debian sid/unstable with GNOME 3.18 and Orca 3.18.2.
I'm also happy to report that Braille is also working on Debian.

brltty version 5.3.1 and Braille is working fine in GNOME.

Øyvind


On 31 January 2016 at 16:57, Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org> wrote:
> 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.