Hi friends, Prashant, great job as usual. I think we must now concentrate on getting mainstream technology becoming accessible rather than waiting for specialized technology. I feel the blindness community is suffering badly on account of specialized technology which is exhorbitantly expensive and is not able to change with the changes in mainstream technology.
The challenge for NGO's and people interested in advocacy is to convince these technology developers to make their technology accessible. I know this is easier said than done but then they must earn their fame and name that they wish to boast. In India, we have three national organizations that work for the blind and I would urge upon them to start the ball rolling. Sadly, this does not appear to be their priority. I would urge those on the list who belong to these organization to live upto the name and fame that is claimed and get us more and more accessible technology. Also, the list members let us also start asking questions of these organizations. Hope we would have a healthy debate on this topic. On 12/14/10, korbamukesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello mr. Prashant, > First of all, thank you very much for presenting your well tested > report on the device ClickScan. Before making the decision whether to > go for this device or not, I do have few doubts which I am reproducing > below with your comments followed by my queries. > > “You need to install this program to operate the device. > > Without this program also it can be operated with Fine Reader, Open > Book or Kurzweil OCR programs. But this way of operation is very very > cumbersome and not really useful for mass scanning.” > > So if I install this program then to what extend this will help to > configure this scanner with fine reader/kurzweil? Will my fine reader > recognize this scanner as fine reader source or I have to work on it > as twain scanner. > > Suppose, in fine reader tools/options/scanner settings if I uncheck > the option not to show this dialog box again then when I open the fine > reader next time will this scanner work as default fine reader > scanner? > > 1. “Without any assistive device (screen reader) both in static and > video mode or use of this device by a sighted.” > > What if I use the screen reader in conjuction with this scanner? > > “These images are stored in c:\program files\i-ball\photos folder.” > > If I have one folder called my scann in c:\documents and > settings\desktop\my documents, and my other combined scanners stores > these images in this folder, then can these images be stored by > default in these folder or > while installing this ClickScan program do I have any option to store > the images in the desired location? > > “Sighted can check the image quality and the focus area as view is > shown on the screen.” > > While inserting the page on the glass of this scanner, do I need to > have any sighted person for figuring out the angle of the page? Does > the glass extends till the edge of the scanner. > > “Always default image resolution is 96 dpi which is too less for > document scanning.” > > Is there any way with my screen reader to change this option every > time independently from 96 DPI to 300 DPI? > > 2. Without any assistive device both in static with fine reader > > “Scanned images can be opened and read in Fine reader. But using fine > reader to scan and read is not so good option.” > > If I scan the image in pdf format, does adobe reader reads this image > or do I need to still have any OCR to perform this funtion. > > “This device uses windows “capture picture to video” dialog which has > four buttons and two image preview windows. With capture button you > can capture current image. In the right hand side preview you can see > all the images including old scanned images. (This is a problem).” > > What if I move the old scanned images stored to another location > before performing the next scan job then will it still show the old > images taken? > > My aforesaid queries may sound to be too basic but your valuable > opinion will help me in choosing the right assistive technology with > the maximum benefits. > I do appreciate for your instant test report which of course, is > self-explainatory but still I had few doubts may be out of curiocity > to know more about this new innovation. So I do kindly request you to > give your few valuable moments to clarify my doubts. > > Looking forward for your kind reply. > > > On 12/12/10, Pranav Lal <[email protected]> wrote: >> You may want to try Plustek scanners. 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