[Electronics-talk] OCR Scanners

[Gabe Vega]

I would just like to note for mac owners these set ups where you need sighted assistence with jaws are fully accessible with voiceover on the mac, I've set up several of these for my job and I have to say, I wonder why people keep themselves behind using such as outdated old day technology.
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On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:20 AM, Elizabeth Campbell wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I recently purchased the Epson Workforce 545 all-in-one unit, and i'm quite 
> happy with it.
> 
> I bought it on sale from Best Buy for $99,and the sales clerk let me test it 
> with the K1000 software version 12 before I purchased the product.
> 
> The initial printer setup and software installation, including setting up 
> the wireless features, requires sighted assistance. However, once everything 
> is installed, the Epson works quite nicely.
> 
> I can even scan without having the machine connected to my computer which is 
> nice.
> 
> Have a great day all.
> 
> Liz
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JULIE PHILLIPSON" <jbrew48 at verizon.net>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 7:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] OCR Scanners
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> 
>> Linda for what its worth I have had four or five scanners over the years 
>> and I think any flat bed scanner will do what you want.  It is the 
>> software that is the key I once had an HP deskjet all in one that worked 
>> fine right out of the box.  It even had its own OCR software and I just 
>> had to configure it to automatically do that.  The printing function 
>> wasn't that great though and used a lot of ink.  I have an Epson now and 
>> its software is not very accessible I can't install it myself at all but 
>> once it is ready I can use it better but I can only get it to do PDF 
>> format and it is not accessible PDF so then it has to be run through the 
>> other program to make it usable. scans great but I have to use it with OCR 
>> software such as openbook or K1000 the scanner is the cheep part of the 
>> deal.  I don't know if HP software is the same as it was but I've heard it 
>> is not but not sure.  Mind you it doesn't quite do all the things that 
>> openbook or K1000 does but it reads it just fine.
>> Julie Phillipson
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Linda Bloodsaw" <lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 6:00 PM
>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] OCR Scanners
>> 
>> 
>>> I need to buy a scanner in order to read my snail mail and other paper 
>>> documents.  I am asking for recommendations.  Thanks.
>>> 
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