Yes, the price of the scanner is quite high, but if you are receiving services from a rehab agency who is providing you with readers or funds to pay readers, you might be able to build a case for them to purchasing the scanning and reducing your use of readers over the remainder of your education, and then to be used in employment.
Annette -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] *****SPAM***** Scanning text books 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 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 ----- 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----- > 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] 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]
