Dear Sakshi, Appreciate your concerns. Abhinav is no doubt an excellent person who can help you whenever you need support. Vision Aid may be improving day by day. I am quite satisfied with Abhinav personally. In fact I am also looking to talk to him when I visit Techshare Exhibition.
Talk about few things with Abhinav or Vision Aid: 1. What is their upgrade policy? Normally it should be 2 versions after purchase. 2. What is the warranty of the hardware? Should be around 2 years or so. I was required to replace my hardware in 2 years, as I had to scan around 6000 or more pages in every 6 months or sometimes even before that. (giving you rough estimate, could be little more than that.). 3. In case you need to get your hardware repaired, approximately how much time it will take for you to receive the repaired / rplaced unit? 2-3 weeks should be good enough. This should not be a major concern, but within what span they release the software updates? Openbook is quite slow in that sense. Another point to consider is that whether the camera scanner works with other softwares like Fine Reader or not? Pearl, for example doesn't work with any other software. This is a drawback, as you can't use the quality of other softwares like Fine Reader. So FS in that sense tries to keep its monopoly. As far as I know, Vision Aid's cameras work with other softwares as well. Another problem of Openbook besides not being able to save in PDF is that it doesn't allow one to save in JPG more than one page. You may have read a recent query in this regard. I generally use exact view of Openbook, which retains the kind of layout you may want to have. Are you talking about LexCam? It was being discontinued. Please visit: www.visionaid.com. If you have used the Vision Aid's cameras, then I don't want to say you anything contradictory, as you know what kind of material you need to scan. I agree with all the points you have raised between Pearl and Vision Aid's devices. But if your material is too challenging to scan in general, then please take proper demo from all distributors before making a choice. I mean to say try it out with your own material. In case of Pearl, I would be happy to help you with a sample. Regards, -- Amar Jain. Website: www.amarjain.com Time to meet up again! Register for AccessIndia Convention 2014: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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..
