[guispeak] Re: how to read print with only a scanner and screen reader?
- From: wd8oep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:14:32 -0500
Hi Andy, Well, we'll try this crap again, since I was trying to type to ya and
something happened and my email left the screen and some darn page came up. All
I know is, I have an ocr program on this computer already, it came with my
scanner. I'm using the Cannon LIDE80 portable flatbed scanner. It has the
Scansoft Ocr software in it already, so isn't that enough? I don't know any
more. All I know is, I am using vip software installed on my computer and it's
just like kurzweil. All I know is it's giving me nothing but fits. The guy
that does their work tech support is charging me $35 an hour and who the heck
knows if it will work any more or not. I'm sick of this crap. I am sick of
all of it. I don't have any way of reading my books, mail, etc. I'm tired of
spending money like it's going tdown the drain. I'm not mad at you, but I'm
furious with all this software I have to buy. Sighted folk can read and I
can't. I could before I bought this used laptop and now, I go
t crap, I got nothin to be able to read with and a reader only once a week.
I'm hacked off. But anyway, scansoft is included with the LIDE80 flatbed
scanner. Harry
-------- Original Message --------
From: Andy Baracco <wq6r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Apparently from: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [guispeak] Re: how to read print with only a scanner and screen reader?
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:17:46 -0800
You cannot read scanned images directly with a screen reader, as a screen
reader can only read text. You must use some kind of optical character
recognition software to convert the scanned image to text. You need not
use a blindness oriented product. You can use an off the shelf OCR package
such as Omnipage and export the recognized scanned image into a word
processor such as MS WORD. You will need to have some sophistication with
the use of the computer and Windows to do this, but there are many blind
computer users who do this.
Andy
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