Re: [orca-list] OCR in Orca?

[Vojtěch šmiro <vsmiro seznam cz>]

Good Morning,


OCR is great idea. Many screenreaders has this and it would be usefull 
for many users.


Thanks for all your great job!


Best regards


Vojta.

Dne 12. 09. 20 v 9:14 Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> Reading a webpage, I am wondering wether we could not enable Orca to 
> use an OCR engine to decrypt things just like tables inserted via 
> images or things like this. Would be helpful in some situations on the 
> Web.
>
> I ask here for user feedbacks and Joanie technical opinions about the 
> idea I am thingking about:
> - the OCR feature would take the graphical object under the caret (or 
> the flat review)
> - would send it as an image to an OCR engine
> - would open a "subwindow" and paste the OCR result, just lke a window 
> pop-up to make the link list appear
>
> Would be it useful? feasible? If not in Orca, is it possible for an 
> external tool to know where Orca caret place (browsing cursor) and use 
> it?
>
> Best regards