[access-uk] Re: Scanner for OCR ing textbooks

Now Darren I've played around a bit and I've changed the colour background to 
yellow with black writing!  I have heard it said that visually impaired people 
see these 2 contrast colours best when reading.  Maybe we will get opinions 
from others now.  I am using Outlook Express so do not know if the yellow 
background will show up on other people's screens.

Eleanor
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Darren Brewer 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:32 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Scanner for OCR ing textbooks


  Hi Eleanor

  Is this better?

  The reason it was blacked out is because I have my colours set to high 
contrast and so if I send an email with the colours set this way the message 
body is black and so is the text.

  I should have changed the colours to windows classic before sending, bit lazy 
of me. sorry about that.

  Regards
  cDarren.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Eleanor Burke 
    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:21 PM
    Subject: [access-uk] Re: Scanner for OCR ing textbooks


    Hi Daren
    I do not know about the scanner but cannot read your e-mail visually, 
thankfully I have speech also.  Why is it blacked-out?  When I hit the Reply, 
it now seems that mine is blacked-out too.  No doubt someone will tells us why.

    Eleanor

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Darren Brewer 
      To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:14 PM
      Subject: [access-uk] Scanner for OCR ing textbooks


      Hi All

      I'm thinking of buying a flat bed scanner and want one that will 
obviously perform OCR, but not be too expensive.

      I remember the opticbook 3600 being mentioned quite a few times on here 
and our very own Mr Nut saying how good it performs. 

      Obviously an edge scanner would be the best option, but I don't think 
there are any in my price range which is currently a few hundred pounds.

      After reading the reviews for the opticbook it sounds like it performs 
reasonably well and can apparently cope with shadowing that occurs near the 
spine. So it sounds like it will suffice for scanning in text books.

      If there is anyone on the list who owns an opticbook then your comments 
would be most welcome, as at the moment it sounds like a good investment. 
However if you know of an alternative that performs as well or better then I 
would love to hear about it.

      Cheers
      Darren.



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