[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about Scanners
- From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:34:33 -0400
FineReader does work well for scanning books and is actually one of
the engines in both Kurzweil and Openbook. If you are considering
buying software for scanning, FineReader 8 is out and costs less
than Kurzweil or Openbook. (smile) I know several people who use
it for scanning and who produce scans of excellent quality. Having
said that, I use and love Kurzweil. I used to use Openbook and did
so for 15 years. The programs cost the same, but they are light
years apart in terms of features and ease of use. Kurzweil lets me
prepare books for Bookshare in roughly one third of the time it used
to take to scan and proofread in Openbook. Jake Brownell has
written a fine article about the differences between the two
programs, and Kurzweil has added some new and much-needed features
since he wrote his article. Check out
http://www.jbrownell.com/ko.html
Because of what Freedom Scientific is doing with the program now, I
wouldn't pay what they're charging for it or suggest that anyone
else do so. They have allowed Openbook to become a seriously
outdated program. They appear to be ignore feedback from their
users whereas Kurzweil actually seeks input and responds with
improvements in their updates. Openbook's feature set isn't keeping
pace with OCR improvements, and their user support is
inadequate. It isn't of the quality we used to see when Arkenstone owned it.
In case it needs to be said, these are my opinions, not the official
position of Bookshare. (smile)
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today!" Will Rogers
Monica Willyard, rhyami@xxxxxxxxx
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