I have an hp scanjet that works fine. I was just pointing out that it could be done and believe it or not, it can be quite wizzy.
----- Original Message ----- From: "mary otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:30 AM Subject: Re: Re: Re: exclusive use of mac? using a camera to scan an entire book does not seem very practical. how about a more conventional approach with a scanner? the scanners i presently use under windows make no mention of mac drivers on their websites, but one is older, an epson, while the other one, an opticbook 3600, is still in production. mary ----- source message ----- from: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby the blind" <[email protected]> date: 2008/01/08 14:09:07 subject: Re: Re: exclusive use of mac? > > > the question is not an ocr one but a voice over one. Voiceover handles > read > iris quite well. Read iris as about as good as it gets. Now, you could > use > the builtin camera take a snapshot and feed it through read iris, that > would > be something. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mary otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:38 AM > Subject: Re: Re: exclusive use of mac? > > > for those of you who use the mac exclusively, what do you do for an ocr > program? is there one that has good ocr capability to match what is > available with windows that is efficiently usable by a blind person? > mary > >
