Quick Demo: JAWS Convenient OCR with the PEARL Camera

Screen readers are great, but what if you need to read a physical document? Not to worry! if you are a JAWS user (Job Access With Speech) you already have an optical character recognition (OCR) solution built right in. In this video we take a look at the JAWS Convenient OCR feature, which allows us to use a document scanner to scan in a document and have it read aloud to us.
We also take a quick look at the PEARL camera from Freedom Scientific, a foldable document scanning camera that connects to your computer via USB, and is able to capture a 8.5x11 document no problem. The design makes it easy to align your document, while providing a handy portable solution.
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[@mckensieparker6414]

Thanks for that info, now I can use this with jaws.

[@VisionForwardTechConnect]

Glad I could help!

[@harpreetthind]

I am going to get a loaner computer with jaws and Zoom Text installed thanks for making this video please make more videos if you guys can with about jaws thanks

[@smithapai1775]

Could you please do a more in-depth video on using JAWS for beginners? Would appreciate that. Thank you!

[@VisionForwardTechConnect]

These videos should get you started ruclips.net/p/PLdZ61dAGaL_m2TZfmDT7Di_JmWaBiSNli

[@harpreetthind]

Can you guys make a video on Jaws like how do use the software since I am not it I never used the Internet with jaws can you make a video for that Luke

[@harpreetthind]

Can we use any document camera or do we have to buy this from freedom scientific directly or is this different than the Jaws OC convert to OCR option?

[@VisionForwardTechConnect]

You can use any document camera or scanner!

[@deegee1742]

Have you used the Pearl camera in multipage (automatic) mode? I have tried but Jaws never seem to recognize that there are no more pages to process. So I never get a "finished" notification or a "Open in Word" prompt. No docs on Freedom Scientific website I could find. Any help would be much appreciated!

[@VisionForwardTechConnect]

sorry, I have not tested automatic mode but will do so and reply back with my findings. Are you using Open Book or JAWS for your OCR software?