Re: [orca-list] OCR in Orca?

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Chrome (and probably Chromium) have an image recognition feature that 
depends on a Google server. I don't know whether this includes OCR though.

On 9/12/20 3:22 AM, Vojtěch šmiro via orca-list wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
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> OCR is great idea. Many screenreaders has this and it would be usefull 
> for many users.
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> Thanks for all your great job!
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> 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
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