[Blindmath] Question on MathML accessibility with Kurzweil 3000

[PR Stanley]

I've already sent my reply to Jamal. Here it is again:
Hi Jamal
I use the UDC universal printer software for converting from PDF to tiff.
One thing I have noticed with Infty is that if the input document 
isn't of sufficient quality then the OCR fails and no output document 
is created.
Feel free to send me the document or documents you have been trying 
to convert and I'll see if I can do anything with them.

There is no indication in the accompanying documentation that the 
commandline version is the alpha version. Moreover, to suggest that 
it doesn't work with lots of things would be misleading, well, 
actually, dishonest.

It's bad enough to use a public mailing list for commercial gain, 
downright disgusting to use it to spread falsehood.

Paul



At 17:58 10/09/2010, you wrote:
>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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