how much does one of these cost?
and can you also try it on hand written stuff? am interested to see if they
work.
also where do you purchase these things at?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: IRIS pen scanners
To answer the last several questions: It is connected by USB to the
computer. There is a program that runs on the mac. IT is a universal
program. I run an intel Imac. You simply run the small head about the
size of a small razor across the text and it immediately reads out the
text. IT does not store first. It creates a line of text across the
computer screen as it scans and it reads at the same time. The mac
program includes a realtime OCR that takes the text converts it to words
and then reads out the words immediately. I had no trouble using it,
if you dont run straight the words will get cut off and you can tell
from the speech that you are off the line. It would be nice to have a
gizmo that would keep one on the text line exactly but I havent seen
one. It can read two lines of text if the text is small enough.
It can do letters or numbers or both. And it can read words, not just
letters. It lets one quickly read somthing without having to scan it
and ocr then put it in text edit etc. IF it is a long text page I would
do the last way but for a quick look at my bank balance or such it is
great. I havnt tried it with hand writing but I believe it is supposed
to be able to read some hand written words. Vickie Weir
Greg Kearney wrote:
Does it store the text and then read it from the computer or does it
read as you scan? Do you have to have it connected to a computer?
Greg
On Aug 12, 2007, at 9:39 AM, william lomas wrote:
hi
if it is really that accessible may get one
can the person who has used it elaborate a little like how does it work
are their techniques to scanning correctly
will
