[access-uk] Eyepal and Top-Braille
- From: "ari" <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:35:22 +0200
Hi everyone,
You guys remember that I was thinking of trying the Eyepal for my scanning
problems? Even though it comes with a thirty day money-back guarantee, I've
decided I'll probably not do it, because I've tried to do a bit more
searching on it, and this is what I've found:
1. It uses it's own software, but the software it uses includes the
Finereader engine.
2. It only does English, not other languages at the moment, but they say
next month they'll have an upgrade which will support other ones.
3. Here's some of the things I really also don't like, for some strange
reason, at the moment you can only save one page at a time in Microsoft
Word, you can save a whole document at once, but it then has to be in text
format, so for me where some of my stuff has columns or tables, I don't
think txt can really even show that properly?
4. Maybe just a irritating thing, but for the price I don't like that this
package doesn't come with any voices whatsoever. If you don't have good
Sappi 5 voices on your pc, it won't speak! This then also made me wonder if
you then also need to use a screenreader to work it, so you can't really go
from pc to pc, just install the software, connect your eyepal and use it,
and most pc's just have sam anyway.
5. After thinking about it then for quite a bit, I actually think it's then
quite a pricey thing for $2000. Finereader is only about 200 pounds here,
and I could maybe, like I think it was Graham suggested, try that other
scanner, the plustech, I think it was, or even a nice large a3 scanner is
cheaper, and it's easier to fit a book on one of those. Even expensive
software like OpenBook costs half as much as this, and I'm not even sure how
specific the hardware is. I know it's probably too simplistic to think of it
as a camera on an l-shaped stand, I know it apparrently can sense when you
turn a page, but I think I'll rather look around a bit more. It's probably
not overpriced or anything like that, but I just think it's not really what
I want to spend on exactly. I was also not too sure from the email I got of
the scanning range of this thing with a book. As much as I can understand,
if the page is an a4 page, then it will take a photo of the whole thing, but
if it is larger, like if the book has two a4 pages next to each other, you'd
have to do positioning anyway.
This isn't really a scanner, I don't know how comfortable it would be to
read a book like this, but out of interest, has anyone heard of this new
device which I read about in Imfama, the magazine of the SANCB. It's from
France, called the Top-Braille, and it really sounds quite fascinating,
although I'm scared to even think how much it costs. The site is in French,
but what you do is you click on the first link, the one with the graphic,
and a new browser opens in another window, and there's an English link. This
thing took this company 10 years to develop! I wonder if it works with
English braille.
www.visionsas.com
Ari
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