Thank you very much, Erik, for this information. While you mentioned the ability to scan text and save it as an MP3 file, I really need to have it saved as an RTF or some other kind of text file. Is this possible?
Best regards and thanks once again, Mike On 22,Jan,2011, at 7:39 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
