Janina, Thanks, I'll have to check that out as I'm using Emacspeak now. I wasn't aware that OCR was a new builtin. I checked out the ClaraOCR and it doesn't sound like what I was wanting. I'll see if I can learn something about the OCR in emacspeak. I'll download the vividata OCR shop and give it a try also. Was hesitant to do so, because someone told me that if you download the demo, then purchase it you didn't get the full set of features but kept some of the demo restrictions. I don't know this for fact only what another person told me. Ron Janina Sajka wrote: > > Ron: > > I'm not sure who among us is using this software, if any. I do recall some > discussions in the past about it. Perhaps searching the speakup list > archive might help. > > Meanwhile, you should be aware that Kirk is in the early phase of > developing an ocr package called socrates which will use sane as its back > end. Also, the T.V. Raman announced ocr support in Emacspeak 15 also using > sane, though there doesn't seem to be any documentation other than the > source code itself for how to do ocr in Emacspeak. > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, > Ron Marriage wrote: > > > I've posted this message a couple time and haven't gotten a > > response to it. > > Does this mean no one used this software or they have other > > solutions? > > Has anyone purchased the Vividata OCR Shop > > program, and if so what are your results? > > I'm particularly interested in the text interface. > > I'd like to get OCR working in my linux as this is the only > > reason I still use windows / Openbook. If this program > > works ok then I can remove windows from my computer > > entirely. > > > > Thanks > > Ron > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, > Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > > Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther > King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at > http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > > Learn how to make accessible software at > http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Ron Marriage Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ Email mailto:marriage@seidata.com Linux User Group http://www.seidata.com/~seilug/ Blind Links http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html