[access-uk] Re: Reading Machines
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:54:23 -0000
Ari, my post was more for information than anything, and it does
demonstrate these camera based devices are going to become more common
from now on.
I doubt it will be sold much outside the USA for a while, and the
price is probably quite high.
As for the price of the KNFB? Well, can't help reflecting on what
someone else said about the NFB, along the lines of "NOt for the
Blind" - or not the ones without much dough or who don't mind spending
a lot of it!
Cheers,
RAy.
From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
ari
Subject: [access-uk] Reading Machines
Hi everyone,
It's rather quite interesting and lucky that Ray's post about this new
reading machine arrived yesterday, because I have a question about
what's
out there and what would you guys recommend.
I need to somehow get my very thick university library books into
readable
form. I have been trying to use a normal scanner with OmniPage, but
the
things I don't like about it are that, first, for some reason, I can
never
quite get it right to position the book accurately on the scanner,
it's
quite a small scanner, and it's quite hard when it's a very thick book
and
it sometimes doesn't open properly, that sort of thing. The other
thing I
don't like, is that, unlike Open Book and some of these other
programs, I
can't hear how the page has come out right away, so I don't know
whether
what I've scanned makes any sense. The last problem is just that the
scanner
also takes ages to scan a page anyway, I just basically find going
through
the whole thing a bit of a hassle, trying to hold the book straight
and the
page flat, that sort of thing for many pages.
Instead then of a scanner, I'm want to know what you guys think of
these
other options. The device of Ray's post seems quite interesting,
because it
says that it's a camera that takes a photo of the book, and that there
are
grooves in the stand so that you can position your book easily, and
you of
course hopefully don't have to hold the book flat. Is this device
though the
only device that works like that, or what other devices can you guys
recommend? I was also thinking of the KNFB Reader Mobile, but am
against
that a bit because it's more expensive, and because I don't think I
want to
always try and focus my mobile phone on a page of a book to try and
take
pictures everytime, and, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is then no
way
that you can save a document and get it to your PC anyway?
Really just need thoughts on what's the best thing to do here.
Thanks
Ari
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