Hi Lissi, yes Bookshare.org will have a table at the ATIA conference. I'll find out details and will post here. Guido Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx. Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able ". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise." [David Poyer, The Command] "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/20/2008 10:54 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Bookshare at ATIA and bring on the future Dear Guido, Bookshare Staff and Booksharian Friends, Will Bookshare be represented at the ATIA conference by staff or volunteers? I don't know if Bookshare fits in with the purpose of the ATIA conference. For the sake of spreading the word I was just wondering. I also don't know what sidebars and toolbars are or what they do. The discussion last Tuesday about Gidgits and Gadgets was out of my JAWS user's, computer illiterate, league, but I felt I was tapping into future trends and that the terms I didn't understand would be familiar to me sooner than later. Since I've had a clue about such things, I've accepted that accessibility runs behind what seeing people use and take for granted. With Bookshare, the staff care about including us. They are asking what we want and what we think well in advance of the technology we can use being developed. I thought all the signs were encouraging and exciting and wished more members and volunteers would have been there. I thought the sample tastes of what is being dreamed about, researched and developed, though exotic in my experience, were enticing. Companies that serve the general population gallop ahead heedless of those of us who rely on adaptive technology. Bookshare has been, and is, all about putting us in the loop with books and in contexts where books loom large. I'm with Monica and Guido, looking forward to the books and book related tools and toys Bookshare's engineers will be offering us And I agree with everyone who is pointing to themselves and saying, "Me! Me!" when it comes to beta testing. The engineers and service development staff definitely have their pick of intelligent, diligent, cooperative, print reading and computer access challenged volunteers using and conversant with every conceivable combination of adaptive device. We're too many, too eager and too vocal to be overlooked when it's time to beta test whatever is nearing readiness! Always with love, :Lissi ----- Original Message ----- From: Guido Corona To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:03 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning: I suspect that OpenBook 8 may start delivering after the ATIA conference at the end of January in Orlando: http://www.atia.org G. Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx. Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able ". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise." [David Poyer, The Command] "BlindGeek" <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/19/2008 11:47 AM Please respond to bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning: Is there an OpenBook 8? I just checked the Openbook Downloads section of FS's website but could only find updates to get it to 7.02 (with a few build numbers added on that elude me for the moment, but it's the version I already have). Am I looking in the wrong place? ----- Original Message ----- From: Guido Corona To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 6:58 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning: OpenBook v6 is very old. Since then there have been significant advances in accuracy of text recognition. You may still be in time to obtain a low cost upgrade to Openbook 8. You may want to contact Freedom Scientific at 800-336-5658. In most cases, current OCR packages have little problems with title pages. Conversely, in olden days title pages were. . . terrible. G. Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx. Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able ". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise." [David Poyer, The Command] "Wildcat" <p.wildcat1234@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/18/2008 07:54 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Scanning: I lay the book on the scanner with the back cover facing left and the front cover facing right. But every Time I lay a page of the book like that on the scanner especially the title page it comes out jibberish like abunch of letters and a bunch of periods. I use a epson scanner as well. I use use version 6 of openbook. Could that be why the title page comes out unreadable? Is there a version of open book that can recignize text better than version 6.0 of open book?