is it the I.R.I.S. IRISPen Express Text Recognition Pen Scanner? just
making sure I got the correct one turns out there are several variations of
these things.
----- 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 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: IRIS pen scanners
I found them at an internet sight for readiris. try google and it will
showup. It is disconnected right now but I will reconnect in several days
and try handwriting. Dont remember the cost but it is listed inthe
readiris site. Vickie Weir
hank smith wrote:
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
