I guess the closest thing to "blind-friendly scanner" is a SARA--Scanning And Reading Appliance. It's a stand-alone scanner. You scan books, and it uses OpenBok software installed on it. YOu save boks on it, or you can save them to thumb crives.
Jane On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:33 PM, "Phil Halton" <[email protected]> wrote: > I never heard of a "blind accessible" scanner. Scanners are scanners. their > just hardware devices that come with some generic utility function software > for copying, faxing etc that is generally useless and which I ignore. Their > neither blind friendly or unfriendly. It's the OCR software that utilizes the > scanner that needs to be accessible. I personally like Epson scanners. I've > always used them and had very little trouble. Currently I use an Epson > Perfection V33 scanner and ABBYY fine reader Sprint, or OmniPage for OCR > software. I get great OCR results with ABBYY and the Epson V33. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Oyen" <[email protected]> > To: "[MacVisionaries]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 5:24 PM > Subject: blind friendly flatbed scanners? any ideas? > > > hello everyone. > > I seem to be running into the google too much information problem. I am > looking for a blind friendly scanner that will be supported under OS X (as > well as windows 7+ with jaws). I need this information for a technology > requisition. so far, I keep getting hits on scanners that are marketed under > the intel name (intel reader) and a number of canon models, HP, epson, > brother and others. unfortunately, looking at the sites for a lot of these > devices, there doesn't seem top be any reference to being blind accessible, > let alone being supported with either OS X (and voiceover) or windows (with > jaws). > > some of the sites (like hp) have so many graphics that navigating them is > confusing. > > any suggestions from here would greatly help my search. I really need to get > the ball rolling on this before the end of this month. > > thanks. > > -eric > > -- > 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.
