well, I don't have a spare $100 to spend on the KNFB reader app, so I guess thats out. also, I am still running jaws 14 on the windows laptop. I may have to see what an upgrade to 16 costs. if its what I think it is, then that is a lot more than my budget will support for anytime in the foreseeable future. I do have Kurzweile personal reader on the windows machine, but I don't know if that will handle PDF docs.
I will look into MyFax and see how usable they are. Since I use my mac primarily, the service would have to be accessible using voiceover on my older white book (running lion). anyway, thanks for the suggestions. -eric On Dec 21, 2014, at 12:12 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > Why not use a service such as Myfax. For $5 a month you can get 200 incoming > and 100 outgoing pages and either a local or toll free fax number. Faxes are > going to the Myfax server and are then forwarded to your email address as a > PDF file. If you want to send a fax you just send an email with attachment to > [email protected] and the Myfax server will send the fax and send a > confirmation email showing either successful or unsuccessful transmition. > There is also an app which allows you to look at incoming and sent faxes, but > while I have been using Myfax for many years, I don't use the app. On an > iPhone I can open the PDF attachment in an app like KNFB Reader or Prizmo for > OCR and as a Jaws user this is now even easier on my computer since I can > just open the attachment and then tell Jaws 16 with 1 layered keystroke to go > ahead and recognize the entire document. Extending convenient OCR to > recognize entire PDF documents in the latest Jaws update was true genious. > The nice thing about a service like Myfax is that it works with any email > capable device, you don't have to have your own fax number or any hardware. > In addition to that you get your faxes anywhere you can get your email. it's > cro > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > 10DigitFaxNumber@myfax > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Eric Oyen > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 10:19 PM > To: Visually impaired phone users > Subject: fax app from the iPhone? > > hello all, > I have been looking for an app that will allow my iPhone to be a fax machine > for my macbook. So far, the app store has a lot of apps, but there are so > many hits that I am not sure which one would be right. Also, it needs to be > accessible using voiceover on there. > > any suggestions? > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
