I must admit I had not considered using my phone for scanning whole
books, but only the occasional letter/document on the fly and
identifying addresses on envelopes etc.
Is the experience now that using
KNFB on a phone is robust enough to efficiently to safely scan large amounts?
I hate it if, for example, you spend time scanning a hundered pages only
to find the whole process falls over and you have lost all that you have
scanned. . If the phone route is genuinely robust for this sort of
thing I would certainly pursue it but would be interested if people have
actually been doing this in reality rather than as a theoretical
possibility.
David Griffith
On 11/02/2016 09:00, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi,
Yes, KNFB with the Giraffe Reader Stand, which we sell, would work.
All the best
Steve
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Richard Godfrey-McKay
Sent: 11 February 2016 08:25
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Camera Scanner
David, Presumably you have already discounted KNFB reader on a smartphone
for some reason?
I find that the latest version works really well with a stand.
Richard
Richard Godfrey-McKay
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
David Griffith
Sent: 10 February 2016 23:18
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Camera Scanner
I had for some time considered that the Docuscan/Hovercam combination would
be the most cost effective replacement especially as I use both Mac and PC.
However the Docuscan Hovercam bundle appears to have disappeared. This
makes me suspect that it did not actually work that well. In fact the
options for visually impaired people appears to have contracted since I last
looked at it. The camera scanning solutions at Computer Room, Humanware
Sight and Sound or RNIB websites are either non-existent or extremely
limited. For example Sight and Sound appear only now to sell the Pearl open
Book system for over £1,000 and a Freedom Scientific version of EyePal at
£1,700.
Both these systems appear to lock the camera into proprietary software
solutions as far as I am aware.
I can buy a hovercam "Visualiser" from Amazon for about £400 but the reviews
are pretty dreadful and there does not seem any reassurance that the Camera
will work well with For example Kurzweil, Abby Finereader etc. I would be
happy to buy Docuscan as well if it was guaranteed to work well and reliably
with the camera.
I am keen not to repeat the mistake of the Eyepal where basically a high
quality camera was let down by buggy unreliable and frustrating software.
What camera based document OCR scanning setups are people using effectively
now?
David Griffith
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