Re: Jaws accessible text scanners
- From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:54:43 -0500
Actually at $600, the Pearl is about four times the cost of a good scanner.
And after March 31, the price goes up to $1195. I have heard demonstrations of
the Pearl, but unless you are planning to scan a lot of books or other bound
documents, the small improvement in scanning speed is probably not worth its
steep price. And it only works with Open Book and no other text-to-speech
program.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian D. Nichols
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws accessible text scanners
Hi John,
I don’t use Pearl, but a couple of weeks ago I was given a demonstration of
it at a FS dealer here in Toronto. I was very impressed. Within a couple of
seconds of clicking or pressing a key or whatever you do to start the scanning,
it was reading the page. It works that fast because it’s really a camera, so
has the image to start on the OCR almost instantly. The unit is quite portable.
Perhaps its disadvantages are that you have to have OpenBook version 9, and
the cost of the pearl itself is at least twice that of many conventional
scanners.
HTH.
Ian
Ian D. Nichols,
Toronto, Canada
From: John Martyn
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 3:59 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; jaws-users-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Jaws accessible text scanners
My old scanner broke and I need something to connect to the computer for
scanning multiple documents. I have heard of the pearl with openBook and iPal,
I think the pearl sounds the best because it works best with jaws. Does anyone
use this device and how well does it work?
I don't want the Sara from FS because it is too slow. Suggestions anyone?
Thanks,
John
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