[Blindtlk] Hi everyone

[David Andrews]

The two are fairly similar in accuracy, and features.  One will come 
out with a new version, and take the lead, then the other will 
update.  You can't really go wrong with either product.

Dave

At 08:55 PM 3/23/2011, you wrote:
>There's people out there who will say Open Book is better, and 
>there's people out there that will say Kurzweil is better. 
>Personally I like Kurzweil. I don't know which one has the better 
>accuracy, I do know though that State Services for the  Blind in 
>Minnesota usually buys their clients Kurzweil if they have to get 
>them a scanning software. So I don't know if that's just an agency 
>preference, or if Kurzweil is actually better. I personally like 
>kurzweil although I'm curious if Open book has a better accuracy 
>rate because when I was in college I used Kurzweil, and some times I 
>had to rescan pages to try to get it where it was actually 
>understandable text instead of a bunch of mumble jumble.
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikki" <daizies304 at comcast.net>
>To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:35 PM
>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hi everyone
>
>
>>    So their features are the same? I really don't have any 
>> experience with either. I'm looking to convert all of my paper 
>> documents into digital format. Wanting the best product for my 
>> money if I end up buying it
>>
>>-----Original Message----- From: Nikki Wunderlich
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:13 PM
>>To: Blind Talk Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hi everyone
>>
>>Personally I like Kurzweil, but it depends on what you have experience with,
>>and how much you want to spend, and if you have a company preference.
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikki" <daizies304 at comcast.net>
>>To: <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 4:20 PM
>>Subject: [Blindtlk] Hi everyone
>>
>>
>>>Nikki here and hoping to make some friends. Need opinions on what 
>>>product would be the best purchase, OpenBook or Kurzweil1000? Any 
>>>techs out there?