[blindlaw] What are the best solutions for scanning legaldocumentson a PC?

Wed Jul 4 02:57:58 UTC 2012

I didn't know that Adobe pro was accessible. I tried it and quickly gave up 
when it wouldn't do what I wanted it to do.

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Marina Cordova
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 5:05 PM
To: 'Blind Law Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] What are the best solutions for scanning 
legaldocumentson a PC?

James,
When you are looking for a scanner, look for a product that has software
with good OCR - Optical character recognition.  Its not just the machine,
but the software also that counts.  As with any legal practice, its helpful
to ensure you can scan directly into Word, into adobe, as a jpg, or any
other file format you use in your practice.  That way you can immediately
edit the document in word, or have it uneditable in pdf to email to someone
you don't want making changes.  Of course, if you have Adobe professional,
you can convert a pdf to word, but it requires an extra step AND alters the
formatting, making editing a pain.  The layout stays the same, until you try
to edit it. For example, it will include line, column, and page breaks in
the word doc you don't want in the doc.  However, the huge plus of adobe
pro, is being able to combine several documents, necessary for combining
extra large exhibits or packets I had to scan separately

You also need to make sure your video card and memory on your computer can
handle scanning, otherwise you will have to limit the other programs you
have open while scanning.

I use a PIC also, and right now I use a Brother MFC 790CW but it's a few
years old, and newer models will have even more features. I use it as a
combination fax, scanner, copier, and printer.  I don't use it as my primary
printer, its cheaper to print on my other printer.  But I like utilizing a
color printer, such as pictures or colored exhibit labels for court, when
necessary. I can scan into any format, but it took time learning the
software, and I'm not sure if its compatible with screen readers.  Its also
wireless and I leave it scanning across the room, it scans fairly quickly,
but I can't use the computer for something else while its scanning.

Sincerely,
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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of James Pepper
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 6:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] What are the best solutions for scanning legal
documentson a PC?

Thank you I am looking into both of them.

James

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Gerard Sadlier
<gerard.sadlier at gmail.com>wrote:

> James, re scanners, most anything will do. A lot of photocopiers are
> actually capable of doing this now. I use omnipage at work. its really
> good.
> I find the kurzweil interface frustrating - each to their own, i guess.
> Ger
>
> On 6/16/12, ckrugman at sbcglobal.net <ckrugman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Hi James,
> > I scan documents with Kurzweil and then save the document in a Word
> format
> > so it can be sent to and read by others.
> > Chuck
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
> > To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 7:56 AM
> > Subject: [blindlaw] What are the best solutions for scanning legal
> > documentson a PC?
> >
> >
> >> What are the best solutions for scanning legal documents on a PC We
> >> are trying to figure this out, we are starting out with Adobe
> >> Acrobat Professional.  Are there machines that are better at this than
others?
>  I
> >> have tunnel vision and I can see the document but they want for me
> >> to start digitizing everything as they were rather intrigued that I
> >> could scan a document and read it with my screen reader.
> >>
> >> James
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