Hello Jacob,
I use a set square with my IRISPen to keep me straight and I've found
that with a bit of practice, I can read fairly well with it. I have no
sight whatsoever either and for thirty-some years, I've used an
Optacon. But I thought I'd better find an alternative solution since
I'm not sure I'll be able to get my Optacon repaired the next time it
goes wrong.
E-mail me off list if you want more information about the IRISPen and
how I use it.
Cheers,
Anne
On Nov 11, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi There
Regarding the Iris pen, how easily are you able to use it? I've been
interested in getting one of these but haven't yet ben able to get
my hands on one to play with to make a final decision. Would it be
difficult to use, as far as lining up the pen with text, especially
as I have no vision whatsoever? I'd guess the actual recognition
quality to be quite good since I'd assume it's using the Read Iris
engine.
On Nov 11, 2008, at 04:28, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello everyone,
I, too, have tried to get information from Nuance about Omnipage
Pro which I've been using for about three years now, but it looks
as though it's no longer of interest to the Nuance people. They
still have the gall to charge a fortune for it, though, despite the
fact that there has been no development on it since 2001.
I've recently bought ReadIris and we already had VueScan, so I'm
now doing the same as Jacob, scanning with VueScan and OCR with
ReadIris. I also use the IRISPen Executive to identify books and
any other printed matter before deciding whether it's worth
scanning properly or not.
Cheers,
Anne
