?Ok, I really hope that you are sending this questions to my e-mail account and not to the jaws list. lol Ok, the first question is yes, but not that good. Openbook can recogize a huge ammount of languages. Frence, italian, spanish, english and a bunch more. Openbook has this option called secondary language. that means that if there's an accent mark on the text and the second language is spanish, it will put the accent mark on the letter. If not, it will ignore it or it will put a wrong letter on the spot. My experience is that if you are going to scan a language with accent marks and another one without accent marks, for example a spanish text wich contains english phrases, I will go with full spanish instead of having 2 at once. second and third questions, highlights affect very little the scanning image, but they do affect it. Hand writing is out of the question. Openbook will detect a image and it will put a lot of crap instead of what you or anybody wrote. I really like openbook a lot. I have both openbook and kerzwhile 1000 on my computer. And frankly, I don't switch openbook. It is easier to use, faster and more responsive. Yadiel From: Brandon Keith Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:55 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking I have a couple more questions, Can Open Book scan textbooks for Beginning French, where it's English and French both on a page? Also, is there any easy way to find what page you messed up really fast? Because if I'm scanning 10+ pages a minute I'll not be able to read them that fast. How do you tell if that page needs to be re-scanned or not in that short of time? Also how does Open-book handle Highlighted text or hand-writing? If I get a book that has a few markings in the margins, how does Open-Book handle that? Thank you, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith From: Brandon Keith Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:26 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking Wow, does the pearl adjust for different page sizes very well? And do you need to take off the bindings? Also when flipping larger books over how easy is it to align the book so that the picture isn't cut-off? And how fast does the motion sensor go? can you slow it down with bigger books and speed it up with smaller books? And how fast is the delay between the picture being taken from when you press the button on the computer? Sorry for so many questions, but if I'm able to scan my textbook with minimal errors in under an hour that beats even using one of those industrial scanners... Also it takes about an hour altogether to find the publisher's information, email them and then waiting for a response from the publisher takes anywhere from 3 hours to a week+. After that you probably need to re-explain to them that no, Kindle is not accessible and no their E-Text reader is not accessible. After that point it's usually a 75% chance you won't get the book... If I'm able to buy the book for dirt cheep off of Amazon then scan it and not throw it away afterwards because it doesn't have a binding anymore, it would be pretty awesome! Thanks, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith From: Yadiel Sotomayor Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:39 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking with a scanner and the latest version of openbook (9), around 2 to 3 hours. With openbook 8 and below, it took me 3 hours just to scan the book and another hour to process the book. With the pearl now, you know what? I yet haven't scan that much paper. But from what I have worked with the machine I would guess an hour tops (maybe a little more if I need to re-scan some pages). But to be honest, I don't find the job anoying. In fact, I kind of like it. One thing I like of using the pearl is that if it is a novel I am scanning I love to start readding almost imediately. Yadiel From: Brandon Keith Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 1:35 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking How long does it usually take you to scan a 300 page book? Thanks, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith From: Yadiel Sotomayor Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:40 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking I found that is you scan the book by yourself you can either put bookmarks for later use while you are scanning or you can scan the book in separate files. That makes the whole process a lot easier. I have no problem scanning te book by myself specially since the pearl camera tripples my speed. Yadiel From: Tim Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:11 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking Hi Brandon, Looking for textbooks in an available format for me to read is nothing new. Many times publishers will send a textbook as a Word document or PDF file if you or the instructor contacts them. That is one strategy I have been using lately. I am sure you are aware of RFB and D. They have a large audio textbook library. Unfortunately, it is not a perfect solution but they will often have the book you are looking for. Other than that it is back to the wonderful process of scanning page after page or paying someone else to do it. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: Brandon Keith To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 7:52 PM Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking If you are a student than your disability center needs to get the text books by either filling out the publisher's special form or by contacting them directly. If you want to buy the book then contact them directly and ask to buy an accessible format of the book. I don't believe there are any accessible E-Text books and the Kindle is inaccessible, so you'll either have to weasel out a PDF, .doc, html or rtf version of the book, or have the publisher join a book-sharing sight like Bookshare.org then get the book off of there. please if anyone else has another way can you share? This is a really ineffective way of getting books and I don't have time to scan my own... Thank you, Brandon Keith Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith From: paul faucheux Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 5:25 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: where to find accessible textbooks for colledge in networking hi this ispaul faucheux. I am wondering where to find accessibleversions oftextbooks published by course technologies. more specifically what e book formats work best with jfw. also what companies produce accessible training materials for microsoft activedirectory courses. if any onecan help can they either call me at 225-209-5635 or write meoff list at pf112781@xxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3346 - Release Date: 12/29/10 01:34:00