Hi Annette,
The scanner you mentioned sounds interesting. The price might be out of
my range at the moment but fifty pages a minute is quite a bit faster than
my HP 1600 all in one can do. I use the OCR that came with my scanner and it
does a respectable job. I have to give it credit for that.
Thank you for all your information.
God bless,
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Annette Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] *****SPAM***** Scanning text books
> 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-----
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> [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
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