Hi. Just one thing to say on this topic.
I prefer Open Book rather than Kurzweil. I use Open book here at home connected to my Focus 40 Blue. It’s the Pearl Camera attached to a stand alone scanner as I didn’t want something attached to my I Mac or Mac mini as I don’t have the space. Have Kurzweil at work and hate it as it’s Bloated. Thanks. Kawal. > On 31 Mar 2016, at 01:55, Robin Frost <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Not sure if this thread has been halted yet so I'll be brief and plead > ignorance on its closure if it's happened. However, I have used both and find > each to be comparable in terms of functionality. I can only speak to my own > experience and in recent years tech support from Openbook has featured more > blind people providing service and assistance than that of Kurzweil. That's > not necessarily a detriment but what eventually drove me to OpenBook was a > problem Kurzweil never could solve for me. Of course this was merely one > specific situation and that's by no means an indication of how others would > fare. But as I said for the basic daily functions one might use it for I > found both programs to be quite on par one with another. > I hope that helps. > Robin > > > -----Original Message----- From: Joanne Chua > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 6:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: viphone > Subject: re: OT: comparing: Openbook vs K1000 > > Hi, > > Yes, it will be run on the virtual machine on the Mac as well as on a > window laptop itself. > The reason why I brought up this topic is because i'm rather bias > towards the k1000 has been for years. I just want to get some non-bias > opinion on it. > I think the pearl camera is around $1000US or there about. This is all > going to be funded, and the organization that doing the assessments > favor the openbook/pearl package, which is around $2000US or there > about. Like I said, because i'm bias to k1000, and also somewhat > against Freedom SCientific, i just want some clarification. Thus, I > just want to make sure that i'm not getting something that it is not > useful for me. > Also, there were talks that k1000 will be eventually available for the > MacOS, as far as when and how, is yet to be known. > And lastly, I do put OT = (off topic) on my subject line. > > Thanks very much for those who reply off and on list. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. 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