[Blindmath] Question on MathML accessibility with Kurzweil 3000

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Don't think it was meant to expire.
But yes its capabilities are extremely limited.

Regards

--- On Fri, 9/10/10, John Gardner <john.gardner at orst.edu> wrote:

> From: John Gardner <john.gardner at orst.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Question on MathML accessibility with Kurzweil 3000
> To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Friday, September 10, 2010, 10:28 PM
> Hi all.This is an early version of
> Infty Reader that was ntended to be an
> alpha test version enroute to a product.  It was
> probably just a mistake
> that it didn't expire. So if it doesn't work properly with
> lots of things,
> it's not a big surprise.
> 
> John Gardner
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 5:32 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Question on MathML accessibility
> with Kurzweil 3000
> 
> Hi Paul,
> Unfortunately, I have never gotten the command line version
> to work, 
> despite many hours of effort tinkering with settings. 
> Even with file 
> types the documentation says are valid input, the program
> either does 
> not recognize them or crashes early in the OCR
> process.  I have tried 
> various ways of converting from PDF to TIF or other input
> formats 
> without success.  Please consider writing a tutorial
> on how to use the 
> command line version successfully with PDFs and any other
> free tools 
> that are needed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jamal
> 
> On 9/4/2010 10:55 AM, PR Stanley wrote:
> > Actually, the commandline version of the InftyReader
> is totally free! If
> > anyone wants a copy please don't hesitate to drop me a
> line.
> > Paul
> > At 15:49 04/09/2010, you wrote:
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> I am confused.
> >> I thought MathPlayer from Design Science was what
> you were looking
> >> for. Plays math ml and it is freeware.
> >> I did not know that K3000 played math ml, in any
> case I find that
> >> product just very expensive, even if it is a good
> scanner.
> >> For math scanning I'd go with Infty Reader, it is
> less expensive and I
> >> know they have student pricing.
> >> Thanks
> >> -Birkir
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/4/10, Tom Tillo <tomtillo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Hi All ,
> >> >
> >> > I have downloaded the trial version of
> Kurzweil 3000 ( version 12 )
> >> since I
> >> > read that it has extended support for mathml.
> I tried it out with
> >> several
> >> > sites with MathML embedded in them , but was
> unable to read the
> >> MathML bit.
> >> > It fails to recognise the math characters.
> (Even with the firefox
> >> extension
> >> > for K3000 - kesireader.xpi )
> >> >
> >> > I guess Iam overlooking/missing something
> small. If any one of you have
> >> > tried to read mathML using K3000, can you
> please fill in the missing
> >> link
> >> > for me ?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks and Regards
> >> > Tom
> >> > tomtillo at gmail.com
> >> >
> >> > P.S: On a different topic - Has anyone tried
> to link eSpeak / any
> >> SAPI5s
> >> > compliant synthesisers with the MathPlayer
> APIs ? I was thinking .. it
> >> > could be developed into a *FREE* reader for
> MathML, like that
> >> provided by
> >> > K3000 .
> >> >
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