[Electronics-talk] OCR Scanners

[Frida Aizenman]

I never had good luck with all-in-one scanners. In the past I had two of 
them and they broke within a year.
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From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] OCR Scanners


>
> 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
>
>
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> From: "Gabe Vega" <theblindtech at gmail.com>
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>>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why people keep themselves behind using such as outdated old day 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
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>>> 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"
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>>>> 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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