Mark, You need to work with your post secondary institution to get your books in an accessible format. Contact your disability student services office, or work with your bookstore. They can first contact the publisher of the textbook you need in an accessible format to see if the publisher can provide it in a doc file or an unlocked PDF. This route is rarely successful, but is improving.
The next option for your institution to do is to contact the links below to see if the book is already available, or if it can be scanned. bookshare.org You or your institution can purchase a reasonable membership. Depending on where you are in your education, you may not find your text book here. http://www.bookscantalk.com/indexaccess.shtml The education institution can pay to have your books scanned into an accessible format. You must purchase the text that the institution ships off to this service provider. http://www.woodlaketechnologies.com/detail.asp?bid=279&catid=30000#Additiona l_Detail I know that educational institutions can pay to have textbooks converted into accessible formats, but I do not know if an individual can pay for this same service from this service provider. There is a new scanner on the market that we are looking at where I work. It is under $2000 and can perform duplex scanning. This means that it can scan both sides of the page at the same time. This scanner can handle 25 sheets per minute which equals 50 pages per minute. I do not know if this scanner works with OpenBook or Kurzweil. We are looking at using it with Abby Fine Reader and JAWS. I'll try and remember to get the scanner info at work tomorrow. Hope this helps. Annette -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 6:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: *****SPAM***** [Blind-Computing] Scanning text books Hi I am currently going to college and of course most of the recorded material is O about five years out of date. I did have success scanning a text book in to my computer and using OCR on it so I could read it. Unfortunately I don't usually have the time to do an entire text book. I am wondering if there is a good place I could send a text book that would scan it to a computer document for me? If so how much would be the charge for such a thing? Please feel free to send me an answer off list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless, Mark God loves you! My ham radio lists. http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio. http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list My personal website http://funhamradio.bloki.com MSS and MSP scripting list http://groups.google.com:80/group/msscripting?hl=en Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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/[email protected]/ 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]
