[small suggestion] regarding enhanced OCR keyboard navigation

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MedBooster
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[small suggestion] regarding enhanced OCR keyboard navigation

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Either a search filter bar, or filtering for letters by pressing a letter on your keyboard would be nice (to at least get to the right letter by pressing the first letter of the language) , since there's nearly 200 elements to look through.
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For those that work with many languages this suggestion might also be useful not only in the download section but the enhanced OCR section itself.
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(though in this section I would probably just to press the first letter of the language to "highlight" the first language and then you could do arrow keys to move up and down – and Enter to confirm)

Something else weird I noticed is that if you use a keyboard shortcut to open enhanced OCR (I assume the same happens when opening it by clicking with your cursor) and press TAB 3 times, and arrow down 1 time you get the languages up and can choose a language with your arrow keys and Enter, while if you simply press TAB 4 times you do not get the language list up. (and arrow down is does not get you to the language list, the arrow keys only switch between the 3 options in the first row). SO maybe you could do it so that the language list opens when you press TAB 4 times, and for the 5th time you press TAB it can just continue to "Add/Update languages"
This is the case for all menus, in my opinion the more you can navigate with a keyboard without a mouse the better :)
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Re: [small suggestion] regarding enhanced OCR keyboard navigation

Post by Tracker Supp-Stefan »

Hello MedBooster,

I've passed your suggestions to the people working on the UK for consideration. We will likely also make a FR ticket for the suggested improvements, and I will post again as soon as I have any further info on the subject.

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Stefan
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Re: [small suggestion] regarding enhanced OCR keyboard navigation

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~ «[suggestion] Quickly find the required languages in "Document Properties" / "Advanced" / "Reading Options"» topic, 2021-10-15, https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=37462
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Re: [small suggestion] regarding enhanced OCR keyboard navigation

Post by Dimitar - Tracker Supp »

Thanks, Jensen Head,

We will keep this topic in mind.
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