[RWP] NVDA AddOns for OCR and support for DoubleTalk, TripleTalk, DecTalk and more

[Indigo]

Alex, can I ask what is Recabinet you mention?
I've had the same experience with several OCR's.
One PDF manual I tried an OCR on  had a bunch of photos of the product; 
surrounded with short instruction phrases  on how to use each button or 
control, with arrows pointing to the button, switch or knob.
What could the OCR do, it stacked up the instruction phrases, topmost 
first;  but all the association with what they were originally pointing 
to was lost.
The arrows were just straight lines with an arrow head at the end, no 
way for an non-smart OCR to tell what that symbol meant.
If you or I felt that symbol or graphic in raised form; with a raised 
form of the gadget;  we'd immediately trace down the arrow toward the 
point to try to find what the arrow pointed to, but that's part of the 
huge amount of association in every human mind.
Of course, even if the OCR was smart enough to look where the arrow 
pointed, the switch or button on the photo of the gadget was bit map, 
and at all kinds of viewing angles; making its pixel outline different 
at each viewing angle;  an impossibly complex  job for a simple OCR.
You could instruct an OCR to know what the pixel outline of each switch 
or button was in that particular manual, but it's that old difficulty of 
artificial intelligence; that a computer tends to only know what it's 
been told by a human; then sorts quickly through previously entered 
instructions for the best fit.
Just using mechanical eyes; without the brain's enormous bank of 
associations; is very limited in what it can tell us, but way better 
than nothing, for sure.
OCR's will be as good as human sighted help when we enter all possible 
human experience into them; plus update them constantly as humans gain 
new experience.
Indi
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On 6/5/2013 1:58 PM, Alex H. wrote:
> Yes, that OCR is handy for perusing plug UI's. Not the most coherent,
> as some of it gets pretty garbled, but that's OCR in other ATs, not
> just with NVDA from what I've experienced.
>
> I used that to put the mouse where I needed and then assign AHK
> hotspots for Recabinet.
>
> Alex
>
> On 6/5/13, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>> Here are user-written addOns for NVDA, including an OCR, plus support
>> for many old hardware speech synths.
>> I grabbed the OCR myself
>> The website explains where in tools to put addOns.
>>
>> http://stormdragon.us/nvda/
>>
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