Humanware is reselling the EyePal from ABISee. I have one here to demo to clients and plan to add it to my training equipment.
On the videos EyePal seems to be instantaneous. It's not. They obviously did some serious editing on those promos. I'd say it's between 10 and 15 seconds per capture. Not slouching along by any means, but not what the promos claim by a long shot either. The EyePal has very nice batch scanning features. It converts text to mp3. It's got braille support in a limited way but they are going to remove it, since they aren't going to develop it anymore. It comes with scansoft voices which I find a shame, but other people will quite like depending on your preference. On the dark side, the documentation is terrible and contains numerous grammar errors if not actual spelling mistakes. The braille support is about to die. The mac version is basically the windows version running in an emulator. The install is buggy, the performance is slightly degraded, and it's not integrated with any of the mack features you know and love such as the ability to import directly to ITunes, the ability to choose voices from your mac speech library, the ability to navigate with the item chooser and more. I have to say, I have very mixed feelings about it. To be fair, my demo unit is the old 3 mpx camera. If I buy my own demo unit it will be the 5 mpx camera. The price has also come way down. Hopefully it will follow here in canada. It's really not worth 2 grand. I'm not even sure it's worth $1200 unless you are using the batch scanning features, but it does the job in a half-baked round about way. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-01-22, at 11:52 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Hi. Several months ago, when Humanware's European marketing manager visited > me here in Vienna, he told me that the company would soon be introducing an > OCR product that would work with the Mac. The user would purchase a > tripod/camera that would connect to the Mac through the USB port and pages > within a document would be scanned by taking "Snapshots." > > The scanning process was very fast, at least under Windows, and I was assured > that a similar system was almost finished for the Mac. If anyone has tried > out the system (I don't even remember what it was called) and would be > interested in sharing their impressions, it would be most helpful. > > My best to all, > > Mike > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
