[Cinci-nfb] Need readers that can work with documents remotely (by email or fax)

[Christopher Sabine, ONH Consulting]

Deborah. I am and have received reader services from CABVI for many, many
years (go back to when Sally Roberts ran the service from the Masonic Temple
Building Downtown and PTP had just been established before she left and
CABVI took over in 2000). I spoke with Jennifer Holiday at CABVI about this
a while ago, who is in charge of their volunteer services program which
includes one-on-one readers. The challenge is that I need the reader on an
"as needed" basis as I don't get bills from sales prospects every day.
However, when I do, I typically need them to call me and read (or at least
respond) the same day. If PTP had a way I could send them a bill copy,
include what I need in a message body and have them leave a recording of
their response in my voice mail inbox on their system, that would be
perfect. 

 

Be My Eyes wouldn't work, as the invoices I usually get have multiple pages,
the text quality is typically degraded, and as Deborah mentioned, getting a
reader to respond is a crap shoot at best. A lot of the sighted volunteers
of Be My Eyes are International, so gathering the information I need in
context would be difficult and possibly unreliable. Be My Eyes is great for
applications like reading a label on a can of foodor having a scene
described, but not for this. 

 

Thanks for all your suggestions.

 

Chris.

 

Thanks so much for all of your responses.

 

Chris.

 

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Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:24 PM
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Cc: Deborah Kendrick
Subject: Re: [Cinci-nfb] Need readers that can work with documents remotely
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Chris, 

Are you on the PTP?  That's Personalized Talking Print, the voice mail
reading service of CABVI.  I'm thinking that this is the type of thing that
you might find a reader to do.  

If you are already on it, then just send Janet Papin a messsage detailing
the need as you have done so succinctly here.  If you are not, then call
CABVI and get signed up!  

It's a wonderful service.  Every reader and every listener gets his/her own
voice mail box.  There are tons of magazines and newspapers read, but also
lots of individual needs met

Good luck.

Deborah

 

From: Cinci-nfb [mailto:cinci-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Christopher Sabine, ONH Consulting via Cinci-nfb
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 5:18 PM
To: NFB of Ohio Cincinnati Chapter List
Cc: Christopher Sabine, ONH Consulting
Subject: [Cinci-nfb] Need readers that can work with documents remotely (by
email or fax)

 

Hello folks. I realize just posting this to the Cincinnati Chapter List
might be too restrictive, but I need a remote fax service or someone able to
read faxes or email documents remotely for my jog.

 

I need to occasionally read utility bills that come in from sales prospects.
These usually come in as scanned PDF images or via an eFax line that sends
to my email. Since the text quality of these bills is degraded and in
columns, they generally don't lend themselves to OCR scanning from a program
like Kurzweil 1000 or KNFB reader. What I need is for the sighted reader to
answer specific questions from the bill (i.e., invoice amount, utility,
alternative supplier, usage data, etc.). I'm not sure if CABVI can do this
as the bills don't come in on a set schedule. In the past, there was a
service available called Read this to Me that did exactly this, but the
service was discontinued some time ago. If anyone knows of a service or
individual that could do something similar, I'd appreciate it.

 

Very Best,

 

Chris.

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