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

[Alex H.]

Hi,

Recabinet is a guitar / bass speaker emulation plugin. One of my favorites.
www.recabi.net

Agreed about OCR. It's trying the best it can, given certain rules. It
would probably work a bit better if the engine was of higher quality,
and there were rule s ets for particular fonts or graphics, such as
plugins vs scanned PDF's, etc. The lines get blurred rather quickly
doing that however. :)

Alex

On 6/6/13, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> 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
> .
>
> ?
>
> 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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