Dave, Try the cannon range. under 100 dolars, will scan an a4 in ten seconds. The lower in price the longer the scan time.
Optic book 3600 is also worth a look, 200 dolars for that baby, but it is quick. Joe On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 16:54:23 -0800 Dave McElroy <d...@drakelroy.com> wrote: anybody have any suggestion as to a good scanner for use with open book and Windows 7? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 3:11 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: Flatbed scanner Docuscan plus is not a scanner. It is an in the cloud scanning program that costs 300 bucks, and you still need a scanner with it. Given the uncertain state of serotek and the fact that this is all done in the cloud, I would not personally touch that program with a 10-ft pole at this time. The opticbook 3800 is a good bookedge scanner. If you mostly want to scan books, that's a good one. But you will still need an accessible piece of software to go with it. Abbyy Fine Reader pro for Windows is said to be accessible, although I have no personal experience with it. The software that comes with the opticbook scanners is worthless from an accessibility point of view.You can try a free demo of the above-mentioned docuscan plus to see if it meets your needs, as you can try a demo of abbyy FR pro, which costs less and gives you way more control, and more languages, than docuscan. There is also k1000 and Openbook, but those programs cost considerably more; they offer many more features and are designed for the blind. So if that's your cup of tea, then go for it. K1000 just released version 14 with the latest versions of the engines from abbyy and scansoft. Mary -- Joe Paton <j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk>
