[Electronics-talk] OCR Scanners

[Gerald Levy]

Excuse me, but all-in-one scanner/printer/copier/fax units that have LCD 
displays whit onscreen menus most definitely need sighted assistance to set 
up.  There is no way a blind person can navigate through the menu options 
displayed on these units' built-in screens.  There are no all-in-one units 
on the market that have built-in speech of their own, so it doesn't matter 
whether you are using a Mac or a Windows PC with JAWS; you still need 
sighted help.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabe Vega" <theblindtech at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] OCR Scanners


>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why people keep themselves behind using such as outdated old day 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"
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 7:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] OCR Scanners
>>
>>
>>> 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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