[nabs-l] scanning documents was RE: curing blindness

[Bryan Jones]

There are a number of accessible scanning and OCR options for the Mac. In addition to the Docuscan application mentioned by Chris, another popular option is the combination of VueScan for high-quality scanning and ABBYY FineReader Express for OCR. While there is no Mac version of Kurzweil 1000, there is a Mac version of Kurzweil 3000 which in my recent testing seems to be partially VO accessible.  The 3000 application is really geared toward Users who have print disabilities other than total blindness, but there are some keyboard shortcuts that make it mostly usable without vision, and it can do the scanning, skew adjustments and OCR of the Windows 1000 version.

Free trial versions of VueScan, ABBYY & Kurzweil can all be downloaded from their respective websites.

HTH,
Bryan

On Oct 1, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know Serotek's DocuScan Plus scanning software is supported by the Mac.
> Not sure about Kurzweil though.