irrespective of many new types of scanners, flatbed scanners which you mentioned as your 1990 memories are the best even today. You will get a lot better accuracy of OCR text in flatbed scanner comparing to snap camera based scanners. Better to buy a flatbed scanner with good speed of scanning. Modern flatbed scanners can scan 10 pages per minute, by that speed you can finish 300 pages book with in 35 minutes. These modern camera based scanners have their own advantages though, such as portability, good speed and less efforts. But for totally blind person sometime it gets difficult to identify whether a correct snap was taken by the scanner or no. In flatbed you know have you placed the book correctly on the glass of the scanner...
On 12/9/23, Pranav Lal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yamuna, > > Camera scanners are quite good. Ditch the Kurzweil 1000. There are add-ons > for nvda that allow you to interface with scanners. Jaws does so natively I > believe. > > You can still buy fineReader which is the best OCR in terms of accuracy. > > Having said all the above, have a chat with the SaralX sales team, NAB > Delhi, the people at XRCVC, who may have better ideas. > > I too have been looking for scanners that support at least a3 paper or > cameras with a wide angle view. > > There are plenty of those around as well, some have been developed in India. > For a4 text, phone cameras are enough. The tricky part though is mounting > them and getting the lighting right. You can go for a dedicated phone > scanner stand. > > What kinds of books do you want to read? I ask because at least for fiction, > the majority of books are available on amazon kindle or are being sold by > individual authors from their own bookstores. > > You will also want to check bookshare and our national library for the blind > called Sugamya Pustakalaya. The thing about Sugamya Pustakalaya is that I > cannot find the current URL for the same. > > > The other option for you is to donate your print books to bookshare India > who will transcribe them for you. I however do not know about the speed of > transcription and conversion. > > NAB Delhi also has a team who can scan a book for you. > > Finally, look at the brand Cannon who do sell scanners here. A quick search > lead me to the following device. > https://in.canon/en/business/dr-m1060/product > Pranav > > -- > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "AccessIndia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/070501da2a42%24fcce0820%24f66a1860%24%40gmail.com. > -- Mohib Anwar Rafay Phone: +919999996464 -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAMudc6yydFVHfmkF6RqEZuzTmJav-MyBoZq2jkLU0enqey2vFA%40mail.gmail.com.
