And some scanners come with it installed in the light verson that can be
upgraded. Vickie Weir
Jerry Halatyn wrote:
FWIW, there's a competitive upgrade price of something like $99.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: scanning in documents
Only problem with Omni Page is its $499 and there's no trial version
available. I chose Read Iris because at least I could try it and I
got a special offer and paid less than the $129 they advertise.
Scott
On Jan 23, 2006, at 7:10 PM, John Weir wrote:
In my case, we had to write a small apple script program to tell
the system to scan, OCR and place the result in text edit where the
VO reads it. We used a microtec scanner, Omnipage ProX OCR and
script. The Omnipage ProX automatically can go out to the scanner
and request a scan and then automatically OCR the result. The
Script just started the process, closed the OCR when done and
pasted the clipboard of the OCR text on to the text edit and let me
know when it was ready for VO to read it. Pretty simple in concept,
but needed some script since the various Apple screen buttons
needed autopressing and locating the buttons with script was not
real easy as at times the mac script did not recoginize the
original setting of the buttons and there were various timing
problems that had to be addressed, etc. Vickie Weir
Justin Harford wrote:
There arre programs for windows computers like opened book, or
Kursweail 1000 that scan printed text into computers, making it
into electric text, that can be read by the screen reader
software. I remember hearing that mac computers can do this with
Irus. Where could I read more about this program? How does it
work. Does it come with the OS? When I searched for it under
"irus" in the spotlight, nothing came up. I would appreciate any
imput that you guys might have about this matter. Thanks
Justin Harford
