I agree with Dane. I recently started using Abby FineReader, and have found it
to be an excellent solution on the Mac. It's not tailored to the visually
impaired specifically, but it does work quite well. The US retail price of Abby
FineReader is $99, and there is a trial available from their web site.
HTH.
On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
> Would you be prepared to consider an off the shelf scanning system for your
> Mac? Meaning something like Abey Fine Reader?
>
> No, its not self voicing but you can get around it with Voiceover so some
> knowledge of how Voiceover works will be a must before you use it but that
> will come anyway if you plan to use Voiceover with your Mac <smile>.
>
> Running a dual boot system or a virtual machine just to run Kurzweil seems to
> be going to one hell of a lot of trouble to me <smile>, I know where you're
> coming from with Kurzweil though as I've used it here on my Windows PC and no
> one can deny its a great package - even though its massively overpriced in my
> humble opinion - but as I said before, you a little knowledge of Voicoever
> will go a long way and save you a lot of time.
>
>
>
> On 17/02/2011 3:11 AM, Caitlyn and Nickels wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have been kicking around the idea of getting a couple of new macs for a
>> couple of weeks now since bothour pc's are not working that great anymore.
>> The main thing that is holding us back is our heavy reliance on Kurzweil. I
>> am a grad student and we also use k1000 for scanning our mail daily. I know
>> we could either do a duel boot system or run a virtual machine and then can
>> use k1000 this way on the mac, but I wanted to ask knowledgable folks first
>> about this before we jumped in.
>>
>> We heard about another kurzweil product that is for the mac, but it's not
>> self voicing, and I don't know if vo works with it. Does anybody have any
>> mac specific solutions that work well for scanning text books? For scanning
>> the types we all get in the post? I use the bookmark features in k1000
>> quite a lot, plus the dictionary a lot and have preferred it a lot for the
>> proof reading I do for book share over ms word.
>>
>> Oh, that's actually another question, we were told that pages actually isn't
>> that great or useable...
>>
>> Lots of this info is coming from people who don't use vo regularly.
>>
>> For us, though, this scanner stuff is the only thing standing in the way.
>> We do have a old power book, but it's the old non intel mac, so we're stuck
>> running leopard on it, can't do a virtual machine or anything on it, it
>> doesn't support the magic track pad, and we can't upgrade to snow leopard or
>> anything beyond what we already have on it(we already called apple about
>> it).
>>
>> Any help or anything would be appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Caitlyn
>>
>>
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