[blindlaw] High-Volume OCR

[Aser Tolentino]

Thanks for the advice. I now have a better idea what I'm facing. I guess
half measures won't do.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Robert Jaquiss <rjaquiss at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Hello Aser:
>
>    If a scanner has twain drivers, it is likely compatible with either
> K1000 or OpenBook. Also ask the technical support people who support these
> products, they may have dealt with this issue before. Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aser Tolentino" <agtolentino at gmail.com
> >
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:01 AM
> Subject: [blindlaw] High-Volume OCR
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> This is probably a bit off topic, but I had an assistive technology
> question. I’m a 3L in Northern California, and have been interning with
> area
> DA’s offices. I started out in one office working misdemeanor files; that
> office paired me with an intern to act as a reader. I signed on with a
> different office where I helped the felony unit out with research and
> preliminary hearings; they let me scan case files to PDF with one of those
> big office scanners, which I then ran through Kurzweil 1000 OCR. I’m now at
> a third office that doesn’t have one of those wonderful multifunction
> scanners readily at hand and am thinking my Canon flatbed isn’t up to the
> task when I’m handed a file an inch thick.
>
>
>
> I was thinking of getting one of those high-speed scanners (e.g. Fujitsu
> ScanSnap) to create PDFs to feed to Kurzweil. But before I committed myself
> though, I figured I’d ask if there was something in the OCR solutions
> market
> that was better/faster: is there something purpose-built to handle this
> sort
> of thing?
>
>
>
> Any advice, including telling me I’m going about this all wrong (perhaps
> especially that), would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aser
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