Hi, I use a Canon printer copier and scanner. I can scan a letter or other document as a text file and it is completely accessible.
As for a photo copy of a PDF file, I would print this document and if it is only one or two page long, I would then scan the printed results to read it. Does that make sense? Thanks, Lennie At 04:24 AM 6/16/2007, you wrote: >Cathie Jacobse asks: >Does this apply to scanned documents as well? For example, I scan a letter >into my computer, then email it as an attachment to you. How easy is it to >be read? > > >Well Cathie, > >The answer to your question depends on how you (or anybody) scanned the >document. Personally, I have Kurzweil 1000 and would use that to scan a >document to save and attach as a text file -- this is quite accessible. I >also have an HP multi-function printer/scanner/copier with dedicated >software that will allow me to "take a picture" of a document or attempt to >scan as text. I have no idea how accessible a document scanned as text via >this HP software will be since I prefer to use Kurzweil for this. But I >suppose it's possible that the HP scanning software would produce reasonably >accessible text files. > >Of course, I'm answering this as somebody who is totally blind and depends >on screen reading software to get anything meaningful from computer data. >If you're scanning documents and sending them to persons that at least have >reasonably functional sight there's probably no issue. And, if you were to >send a "photocopy" image to somebody who has Kurzweil he/she could always >run the attachment through the KESI Virtual Printer themselves to get a text >rendering of the letter. I don't know if Open Book has a similar feature; a >capability to have the Open Book Optical Character Recognition software >serve as a "printer" to convert images into text. >---------------- >Bill Gallik >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for >her first question. > > > >Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: >http://www.blind-computing.com >Address for the list archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/not known right now >To post to this group, send email to >[email protected] >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the >subject or body of a blank message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Use the following form in order to contact the management team >http://www.blind-computing.com/contact.php >If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >following address: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/not known right now To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.blind-computing.com/contact.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
