It's advertized as being able to scan 20+ pages in a minute. What other scanner can scan 20+ pages in a minute that is able to be used in the home as well as is accessible with Jaws friendly programs? Thank you, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith From: Gerald Levy Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:54 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Jaws accessible text scanners 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