Interfacing OCR and Text to voice software using VB6.0
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Hi Does anyone know if its possible to interface OCR and Text to voice software using VB. I'd like to use availabe OCR and Text to voice software without having to open and start them separately e.g. scan text using OCR then text is read back automatically using text to voice software. I'd like to achieve this in one operation, without having to constantly be clicking icons on screen etc. Is this possible??!!! :confused:
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Hi Does anyone know if its possible to interface OCR and Text to voice software using VB. I'd like to use availabe OCR and Text to voice software without having to open and start them separately e.g. scan text using OCR then text is read back automatically using text to voice software. I'd like to achieve this in one operation, without having to constantly be clicking icons on screen etc. Is this possible??!!! :confused:
Depends on the software your using and whether or not these pieces have an automation or COM interface, or if you can get a usuable output from the OCR software and get the speech software to use it, ... I'll say it IS possible. How your going to be able to this is an entirely dependent on the OCR and Speech software you are using and what you want to scan and read. RageInTheMachine9532
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Depends on the software your using and whether or not these pieces have an automation or COM interface, or if you can get a usuable output from the OCR software and get the speech software to use it, ... I'll say it IS possible. How your going to be able to this is an entirely dependent on the OCR and Speech software you are using and what you want to scan and read. RageInTheMachine9532
Hopefully will be scanning only basic text documents. Could you recommend any OCR or Text to voice software..free VB OCR/Speech software if you know of any..my budjet really wont stretch to commercially available software!!! Will any of this be possible without access to the source code.... Thanks
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Hopefully will be scanning only basic text documents. Could you recommend any OCR or Text to voice software..free VB OCR/Speech software if you know of any..my budjet really wont stretch to commercially available software!!! Will any of this be possible without access to the source code.... Thanks
"Hopefully"? 'Hopefully' doesn't sound like a good start. Keep in mind that OCR software is FAR from perfect and reading filled in forms is a huge pain ... and handwriting, forget it! There is open source OCR on SourceForge.net. I'm not familiar with the specifics of any of the projects, but there might be something useful there. As for Speech, Microsoft has a Speech SDK available here[^] RageInTheMachine9532