[access-uk] Re: Scanner for OCR ing textbooks
- From: "Darren Brewer" <darren.m.brewer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:04:23 -0000
Well hopefully they will give opinions under a different subject heading as I
would like to find out about scanners at the moment.
Darren.
----- Original Message -----
From: Eleanor Burke
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:39 PM
Subject: [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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