Re: Jaws accessible text scanners

  • From: "Brandon Keith" <brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:05:33 -0800

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?
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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

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