Yeah that's true perhaps if you already own another product. If you
do not, then your stuck and so I chose Read Iris cause I paid $59
with my special offer. I don't know if they offer everyone that
special price when first purchasing the product or not, but I was
quite pleased.
Scott
On Jan 24, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Jerry Halatyn wrote:
FWIW, there's a competitive upgrade price of something like $99.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell"
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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
