What is iPal? Is it an apple off-the-shelf scanning software program? Or is it a Kurzweil product?
Brian M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr. Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: scanning and the mac The iPal now works on a Mac. It is self-voicing. I never considered one, but just heard from a doctoral student friend of mine who swears by it, and its speed. Antonio Guimaraes On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:11 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 > > > -- > 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.
