Hi Gigi, It's very comperable to the pearl. If you had a load of scanning to do for university or some such you'd be happy to pay. It saves lifting large books, or bending or cutting them. It's fast. It's accurate. It's friendly to different lighting although it does work best in bright artificial light.
I still say the pricepoint is really high, but I also understand there are good reasons why some one would be happy to pay. You are right. There is a stand alone version for about 800 bucks more, but it's not worth the money under any circumstances. It has no onboard memory to speak of and doesn't handle external memory well. It requires the purchase of an extra $500 keypad component to access all the features. It's big and clunky although not nearly so much as the sara CE. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-07-03, at 1:49 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Erik. > Do you think the price would be worth it if you had a lot of scanning to do? > The thing I saw was like the Purl camera, very fast and you didn't have to > close a scanner or anything like that. For me, I may wait because I don't do > that much scanning right now. But Kurzweil 1000 for Windows, is not a lot > cheaper than this one. OpenBook isn't either if you want the Purl camera, and > you're using Windows, of course. > > I kind of gathered there are two readers: the one that connects to the > computer and the stand alone one. Did I get that right? > > Eugenia Firth > [email protected] > > > > On Jul 3, 2012, at 12:38 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> Well, for one thing, it does it's processing locally, not in the cloud. >> That's convenient because it means you don't have to be connected to the net >> and it's also nice from a security standpoint. It's also much faster >> processing locally. >> >> The featureset of the Eyepal is not really worth the price point it's true; >> never-the-less, the fact that you can simply plug it in and it works is a >> huge benefit. I was funded for one, so I bought it and I rely on it. If >> I'd had to buy it myself the price would be a showstopper. But it does what >> the brochure says. >> >> Best, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting >> at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. >> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> >> On 2012-07-03, at 1:26 PM, Mary Otten wrote: >> >>> >>> What does this program have that docu-scan doesn't have? That one costs 300 >>> bucks, plus the camera for another 300 from amazon. As I understand it, the >>> 300 dollar camera t5-v from Hovercam has the same resolution as the one >>> from Abissee. So what does the Abisee product have to make it worth 1200 >>> bucks? >>> Mary Otten >>> [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. > > > -- > 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.
