[access-uk] Re: Abbey Fine Reader

  • From: "Richard Godfrey-McKay" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:49:14 -0000

I paid about £80 for version 8 last year. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Eleanor Burke
Sent: 03 February 2009 10:45
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Abbey Fine Reader

How much is Abbey Fine Reader?  Is it something like OmniPage?

Eleanor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:32 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking OCR products


> It's a program to scan printed material and convert it to accessible 
> formats, accessible as in it can be read with screen readers.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:59 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking OCR products
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>
> What is Abbey Fine Reader?
>
> Eleanor
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Saqib
>  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 8:12 PM
>  Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking OCR products
>
>
>  Hi. Is there a download link for Fine Reader. I did have Abby Fine REader

> 6 a couple of years ago on my old machine and it was accessible.
>    ----- Original Message ----- 
>    From: Steve Nutt
>    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 5:26 PM
>    Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking OCR products
>
>
>    Hi Dean,
>
>
>
>    FineReader is very accessible.  Not only that you can scan straight 
> into Word, which of course, is accessible.
>
>
>
>    I also use Kurzweil, but I don't use Open Book as it is even more 
> bloated and is slower than K1000 on my machines.  K1000 is excellent 
> though at what it does.
>
>
>
>    All the best
>
>
>
>    Steve
>
>
>
>
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>    From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Dean Wilcox
>    Sent: Monday 2 February 2009 17:20
>    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking OCR products
>
>
>
>    I've never quite got round to trying Abbyy FineReader but I heard it 
> was very accessible. How accessible is it?
>
>    At 16:38 02/02/2009, you wrote:
>
>
>
>    Hi Peter.
>
>    Yes I know, 15 was nice but 16 has a completely new interface.  They've

> crammed a lot more options on the main screen and they've stacked pages on

> top of each other, they call it a tabbed interface but its a pain in the 
> ass to navigate.
>
>
>
>    ----- Original Message ----- 
>
>    From: Peter
>
>    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>    Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 4:36 PM
>
>    Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking OCR products
>
>
>
>    Omnipage 15 is very accessible with JAWS and having used Kurzweil 11 
> for my work, I much prefer to use Omnipage 15.
>
>
>
>    Peter
>
>    From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
>
>    Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 4:25 PM
>
>    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>    Subject: [access-uk] talking OCR products
>
>    Hi Everyone.
>
>
>
>    I'm looking in to buying a talking OCR product like Open Book or 
> Kurzweil as the commercial offerings OmniPage and Fine Reader aren't 
> terribly accessible with jaws.  I'm currently giving Open Book a go and 
> was wondering what other people who used this product think.  I have used 
> kurzweil in the past, but I've always found it rather bloated and 
> frequently crashing so I've steered clear of it lately.  Anyone who has 
> used both products and can give me a rundown of the pros and cons of each 
> respectably, I'd be very grateful.
>
>
>
>    All the best, Ibrahim Gucukoglu
>
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