[Blindtlk] Hi everyone

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

The advantage of programs like K100 and OpenBook is that they can do things
such as read at the same time that scanning is being done.  They also add a
lot of features that have little to do with optical character recognition.  

With Window-Eyes I use OmniPage 17.  It has built-in speech, but I find it
best to save its output and read it in another program such as Word.  I
don't know exact prices, but Nuance is the company that makes it, and it is
standard software for office use.  Another OCR program that gets good
reviews is Abbyy FineReader.  These programs cost in the low hundreds of
dollars instead of $1,000.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Nikki
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:25 PM
> To: Jeanette Fortin; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hi everyone
> 
>    hmm... I'm pretty much lost for words. Trying to gain independence with
> low income. Ugh! I don't really want to ask the state to fork over 900
> bucks
> to support my independence...