What is openbook this scanning program sounds interesting On 2012-07-02 11:54 PM, "Eugenia Firth" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys. > I wanted to tell y'all about the scanning program that I saw at the > exhibits at NFB today. True, it costs $1200, but it comes with a camera > sort of like the Purl camera. > > I had to get it going for them because the guy that knew about it wasn't > at the table at the time I showed up. He came right after I got it going. > It wouldn't talk at first. Who knows where it was on the screen. Like > OpenBook, you don't use the screen reader while it's running. However, I > had to turn their VoiceOver on, press command q and get out of their > program, and then call it back up again, after I turned off their track > pad. The person that was sitting there keeping watch while the developer > was gone for a little bit, I guess was a Windows user. Anyway, I got the > program going. > > The developer that came back was very knowledgeable. He told me they had a > former Kurzweil engineer with them. When I did the scan, it reading was > incredibly good, even in the light my husband said was glaring on the > paper. > > I have a Purl camera I am considering selling. It doesn't have much use on > it, and maybe I ought to sell OpenBook while I'm at it. However, I don't > know if I can. The state gave me OpenBook, but I bought the Purl camera > myself. I'll have to find out what I can do about OpenBook. > > Eugenia Firth > [email protected] > > > > -- > 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.
