Hi Stacy,
Yes, FineReader does work with Jaws. I am still on Jaws 10.
FineReader is an OCR package. My scanner did come with a promo version.
I
purchased a newer full version though. I am using FineReader 9. I
purchased v 9 because it supports scanning of multiple pages in the same
session and also supports scanning pages that face each other and will
split
them out as separate pages automatically. These 2 features speed the
scanning process tremendously.
I would say that you probably can use your system with Jaws and Finereader
and MS Office. However, with only 1 GB of ram you may find it runs quite
slowly. If you can find the spare money you might want to add another gb.
When I use MS Office and do my cleaning/proofing I find it necessary to
have
the settings such that I can see many control codes in the documents with
Jaws. I am thinking of page breaks, paragraph markers, linefeeds, column
markers,section breaks. You will not want to turn on display of
non-printable characters. this makes Jaws see a dot/period for every
space
and lots of other non-printable characters. It becomes very much
confusing
in this situation.
I hope this is helpful. If you have other questions just send a note and
I'll respond.
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From: "Stacey Robinson" <staceyr75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 7:31 PM
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dan Beaver's Volunteer Bio
Replying to myself.
Dan, what is fine reader? Did it come with the scanner you bought?
I'd like a way to scan things for personal use but cannot aford a program
like Kurzwiel 1000 or open book.
Does this fine reader software work with jaws?
Also, my laptop only has 1 gb of ram and a small harddrive (60 gb I think)
could I get a scanning sollution for this setup?
I'm running jaws 11.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stacey Robinson" <staceyr75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 6:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dan Beaver's Volunteer Bio
Dan,
I don't always do well reading manuals, (don't always comprehend
everything) can you giv me tips (off list if you want) on proofreading
with jfw 11 and ms word 03?
Any help is appreciated.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 5:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Dan Beaver's Volunteer Bio
Team,
What a remarkable group this is! The latest bio I have recieved is from
Dan Beaver below.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
________________________________________
I have been a volunteer for Bookshare for several years. I first
purchased a membership because of needing some of the technical books
that Bookshare offered. After approximately a year I decided to give
back to the community by helping to add more books to the collection.
I purchased a very plain and normal Epson flatbed scanner for the work.
It and the Fine Reader software I purchased have served me very well in
doing the scanning.
I am blind and have been so since the age of eight years. I use Jaws
and
NVDA as my screen readers. I do my Bookshare work in MS Office for the
most part.
I feel very fortunate to have been the first blind individual to have
worked my way through the BS in computer Science degree program at Utah
State University. That struggle prepared me very well for facing
challenges through out my career. I graduated and gained employment
with
IBM and was an IBMer for 30 years. My years at IBM helped me learn and
develop skills that have served me well in the scanning and validating
effort. Being detail oriented is important in this endeavor.
Over the years I have validated many books and have submitted a large
number of books which I scanned. My wife has scanned books and asked me
to submit them. She prefers to work behind the scenes.
One of the largest group of books we submitted that are now in the
collection are the Boy Scout Merit badge booklets that teach the skills
necessary for achieving the rank of Eagle in the scouting program. this
was done in order to support a young man we are very close to in his
efforts to earn his Eagle. It was fun working along side other
volunteers in our community who helped with this project. It was also
fun helping those volunteers to proof read the scanned booklets and to
do
the cleanup.
When the project was complete we had spent 514 hours and 22 minutes
scanning, cleaning and submitting those books to Bookshare. My wife put
in over 200 hours herself on the project.
Unfortunately I lost my job and have had to focus intently on finding a
new job. This has made it nearly impossible for me to spend time
scanning and proofreading over the past 15 months. I hope very soon to
jump back into the game and complete my personal project of submitting
the rest of the "Work and the Glory" series. That in itself will take
me
several months because the books are very large. I also am planning to
do the "Kingdom and the Crown" series.
Some other books we have submitted include murder mysteries by Anne
Perry. those were very challenging with all the Victorian era English
dialect involved.
We also submitted several books by Steven R. Lawhead. Three of those
were his version of the Robin Hood story. Very different than your
generally accepted story of Robin Hood.
I agree with the comments of at least one other volunteer. they said
that validating or else scanning and doing the initial cleanup of a book
helps to learn more from that book than at any other time. Indeed, I
have learned more from the books I have validated and submitted and have
grown more threw that process.
Thanks Bookshare for making this opportunity available to all of us out
here. A precious thing is more valuable when it is held by its makers.
Dan Beaver
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