Very good post. What version of MS Office are you using? thanks Al
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 3:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Re Fast Scanner Dear Tony I started studying law last year and purchased a fast scanner to help me with this. The scanner I bought was the Canon DR 2580 which has performed very well with duplex scanning at about 25 pages a minute = 50 pages. This cost me £550 in the U k and has been worth every penny. I have scanned thousands of pages for myself and a friend who is a blind law lecturer. I think that currently there are about 2 dollars to 1 pound but kit is often cheaper in the US compared to expensive U K. . I did not buy the flatbed add on for this scanner as this is about £300. I purchased a second hand small Canon A4 flatbed for about £30 on EBay which covered my flatbed needs which have not been very great. I have never had to cut bindings off books and tearing the pages out of books and feeding then in batches into the 2580 has worked fine for me with very rare paper jams or other problems. In that sense it has worked a dream. Sadly the books are ruined for sighted people but at least are usable for me. Basically I had to decide what books needed to be read and purchased them. It is always worth contacting publishers to see if they will provide an electronic version. Oxford University Press sent me a free copy of a book when I explained what I was having to do for example. I have ended up using the Document scanner utility with Microsoft Office. Oddly I have found this to be by far the most accurate and fast scanning software with this kit. It has outperformed for example Kurzweil, Omni page, and Textbrige on my system. I was given this advice by the hardware providers when I said I wanted to buy the best software for this scanner. They confessed that they did not want me to waste money on unnecessary software. I think they saw me as a charity case and so forgo the opportunity to sell me something. I had already bought Kurzweil and Omni page however but they were right - I have been better off with Document Image Scanning in the Office Tools menu. Office document Imaging can sends text to Word in HTM format. I then save as a RTF file in word. The interface is slightly more cumbersome than Kurzweil but accuracy is far far better in my experience. In Document Imaging you need to change options to use the driver software provided by Canon. Make sure that you do not select duplex scanning in Document Imaging and instead set this option within the Canon driver interface which should pop up when you select scan. After scanning simply select send pages to Word in the tools menu and Word will open with your scanned text. Hope that helps. David 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.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.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.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
