[bksvol-discuss] Re: Kurzweil and crashes and TTS- Attn to Mary
- From: "Julie Morales" <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:01:45 -0700
Hi, Dilsia. I'm not sure how much help any of us can be on here with K3000, as
most of us on here, if not all of us on here who use Kurzweil, use K1000, and
there are some differences, of course. Take care.
Julie Morales
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From: Dilsiaa@xxxxxxx
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Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kurzweil and crashes and TTS- Attn to Mary
HI Mary
I'm using an Acer Scan 2 Web Scanner 4300U 3300U, I've seen the scanners that
are best with Kurzweil but mine wasn't listed in the useful or the ones we
should avoid at the website. And yes 128MB are a meager memory, I'll get an
upgrade as soon as I can. K3000 uses expervision and Fine Reader, the thing is
I wanted to post my experiences because I've seen through the threads in the
list that people with more powerful computers are having problems with Kurzweil
like mine. My computer has minimums minimums requirements to run those programs
so I wanted to share to make a comparison with Kurzweil. Kurzweil 3000 is alike
K1000 but it has some feauters like spell the word, pronunciation but is
limited in dictionaries you can use. I have ABBY Fine Reader 7.0 Professional
and when you need a dictionary for spell checking you can go to the Abby site
and download it. Also the editing of the underlying text is troublesome in that
you get broken words merged words and the like but I would like to have a
mentor in Kurzweil to teach me more a hands on experience.
In general the program is beautiful in spite of its quirkiness, definitely a
jewel.
Very truly yours
Dilsia
From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:40:12 -0500
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kurzweil and crashes and TTS
Regarding the problem of the scans not coming out well with the engines
provided for K3000, you will doubtless have to make adjustments, as you would
for any ocr program, omnipage or whatever. I don't use K3000,
so I can't help you with regard to where you go in the program to do the
adjusting. But these are the same engines used in K1000, and I've got hundreds
of scanned books that testify to the over all excellent quality
they can produce.If K3000 is like K1000, there are definitely scanners that
it won't work well with. They have lists on the kurzweiledu site, although
they're not exhaustive. What scanner are you using? 128mb of ram
isn't very much for an xp system running an ocr program with software speech,
especially if you also had other programs open simultaneously, so that might be
the source of some of your issues. there are also issues
with ibm via voice, depending on what other speech engines you may have
active on your system. The usual suspect is eloquence. And apparently, if yo
have sapi3 on the system, you may also have problems when
trying to use via voice.
Regarding dictionaries, there is no large Spanish or other foreign language
dictionary provided. But I'm sure you can set K1000 to recognize various
languages. Which ones depends on which ocr engine you use.
Spanish is definitely one of them. Again, since I don't use the program, I
don't know where to tell you to find the settings in K3000, but I'm sure its
there somewhere.
Mary
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