Yes you did and Let me be the first to tell you that it will be one of the best investments you have ever made. It reads bills fabulously but per the last message, I do have trouble with it reading recipes but it is absolutely dinomite. As a matter of fact, the ups lady was here the other day bringing in a juicer in a big box and the scannar was reading something to me and Amy said, "Where's the lady?" I told her it was a machine doing it and she stood there absolutely fascinated. As a matter of fact, Ann Parsons reminded me yesterday that our village tax office wants me to complete a form for them. Anyway what am I going to do? I'm going to scan it in the scannar, download it in to the good ol bn and fill it out and then e-mail it to them. Is there no end to what the folks at Pulsedata enable us to do? The only thing I have a real problem with is say you have a300 page book and on page 150 of the thing the scannar totally messes it up or there is a picture and you don't want that part, well you can't just delete that one page as far as I can find and also you have no go to page. You do have flags which send out bookmarks but they only allow 8 per document. This is obviously developed for the non technogeek in mind who needs their bills scanned and maybe some pretty straightforward things like letters from family and friends but anything more involved is just beyond its capacity at this date. I bought it because my computer had totally died and I had hitherto had monumental problems with openbook 6 and 6.1 and I was in no psychological frame of mind to deal with drivers and I had to buy a usb scaner anyway so I simply bought what I wanted and it has been well worth the extra cost involved. Ok I'll get off the horn because I have a bn question for the next message. Bye for now.
Mary Ellen Earls ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Kristic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Ot Is there a scannar list? > Hi Kellie, > What Mary Ellen is talking about is the ScannaR, which is a stand-alone scan-and-read flat-bed scanner made by Pulse Data that has its own OCR software and hard drive built in, meaning you don't have to connect it to a PC, and it can also transfer files directly to a BrailleNote/VoiceNote through its internal ActiveSync program. Anyway, it's like Kurzweil or OpenBook, but there's no need for a computer, and the software's built right into a scanner. Please correct me, anyone from PDI, if I'm wrong on this, but I don't believe there's a ScannaR mailing list. I'm thinking about getting one sometime soon, so I looked into that as well, but I didn't find anything. However, if there is one, I too would love to have the email address needed to subscribe to that List, as I would find it very helpful in that it would give me an idea of how the system actually works before I got one. Anyway, hope I interpreted what you were talking about correctly, Mary Ellen, and I hope this helps. Oh, and Kellie, don't worry about not knowing what the ScannaR is; when I sent a question out to this List about it about a month ago, some people thought I was referring to a general scanner or some type of software such as Kurzweil or OpenBook that you mentioned. Sorry if this isn't too BN-RELATED, but I just wanted to reply to try to clear up what was being talked about, if I did indeed get it right, and to try and offer the answer to this question that I've found to be true so far. HTH. > Maria > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Kellie Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "Mary Ellen Earls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:13:35 -0600 > >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Ot Is there a scannar list? > > >Hi Mary Ellen. Are you talking about scanners in general or a specific piece > >of scanning software? I know both Kurzweil and OpenBook have lists, but > >unfortunately I don't know either of their addresses. If you have specific > >questions about scanning something feel free to ask me offline and I'll try > >to give you some suggestions. > >Hth, > >Kellie > > > >___ > >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >
