Hello, According most blind users, one of major problems in GNU/Linux systems has been the fact there is no quality OCR. Since Universal Accessible System, Hypra has made it easier to be used by anyone, including Windows users. They will soon ship a high-quality speech synthetiser. For now, they fix the OCR issue. Thanks a partnership with Abbyy, Hypra now provides a utility for image files and scanned documents recognition. It is a binary file. Then, everyone can run it as a commandline tool. For people who use MATE and want easy-to-use thing, Hypra provides a Debian package that you can install on any system. It adds an entry in she context menu of Caja, the file manager. Hypra also provides the needed commandline that you can add to customized bindings in your desktop environment. Once installed, Abbyy FineReader from Hypra becomes the simplest OCR suite in the PC world, as a single binding or a context menu entry is enough to run scanning, recognition, displaying in the LibreOffice suite. Scanned images are stored. Finally, the utility is available in the Universally Accessible System. What about price? 150 euros. Slightly less expensive than OmniPage for Windows or FineReader in full release. Hypra provides here the only solution unlimited for GNU/Linux, while Abbyy provides at such price a 12000 pages per-year limited release, or unlimited one for 3000 euros. The movement initiated by Hypra is good, new step in an accessible for everybody system, removing any barreers. Sincerely, -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Coordinateur francophone du projet Linux From Scratch Animateur suppléant du groupe de travail Accessibilité de l'April Administrateur d'accelibreinfo Administrateur de Liberté 0 -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: contact@xxxxxxxx Site Web: http://hypra.fr _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list