[access-uk] Re: HUMANWARE ITEMS
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 22:03:12 -0000
Hi David,
Actually you're not compelled to use the software, if you have Kurzweil 1000
or 3000. They both support iPal.
All the best
Steve
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
David Griffith
Sent: 03 March 2015 15:57
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: HUMANWARE ITEMS
I know nothing about the EyePal Ace which sounds a newer product but I
have had an EyePal scanner since 2008 and whilst it has provided a lot
of scanning for me I could not recommend it for purchase.
The main problem is not with the camera scanner itself but the dreadful
and buggy software which you are pretty much compelled to use, at least
for the actual scanning. The camera driver does not display as a generic
scanner which prevents it being used by programs such as Abby.
The list of deficiencies with the EyePal/Zoom Office software are too
numerous to list all here but I detailed all of them to Humanware years
ago to pass onto the developers but this had absolutely no affect.
The software is poorly implemented. Whether it successfully recognizes a
connected scanner at all is pot luck and it tends to crash
unpredictably. It will always crash for example if you inadvertently try
to scan a blank page in a book, this is a big fault for a product which
claimed to be usable by blind people. A new version of the Windows
Software appeared last year but I have never managed to successfully get
it to recognize its scanner camera under Windows 7 and had to eventually
revert to the driver from an earlier version. The Eye pal was
advertised as supporting the Mac but the Mac software no longer works
under Yosemite and Humanware tell me that they have no knowledge of when
or if it will be updated so that Mac users can still use their scanner.
so on the Mac side at least you can have no confidence that the hardware
will be properly supported.
Back on Windows you should allegedly be able to get the scanner to work
with Kurzweil but again I have tried this on 4 differnt Windows machines
and setups and have never managed to get it to work on any of them using
Kurzweil 13.4.
The best way of using the scanner is to let it create books, which are
saved as jpg image files of each page and then use something like Abbey
Finereader or Kurzweil to convert these jpg images into a Word Document.
David Griffith
On 03/03/2015 14:27, Carol.Pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As with others of you, we received leaflets about various Humanware items
for sale today. There were a couple I didn't know about and wonder if
anyone has these and can tell us more about them from a user perspective,
please. I should add that we've been away and have lots of catching up to
do so scanning these leaflets hasn't yet become my priority.
>
> One is the iPal Ace Scanner and the other is the digital photo album.
How good is the scanner and how would it benefit over the Braille Pen? I
can't quite understand the digital photo album, so can anyone explain that.
How many pictures can it hold?
>
> Thanks to all for any explanations on these.
>
> Carol P
>
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