[nabs-l] Scanning And Reading Appliance (SARA) vs. Kurzweil

[Jane]

It's very simple to use. It is, literally, a stand-alone device for scanning and listening to stuff. You don't hook it to your ocmputer--the software is inside the machine. You can copy stuff from it onto your computer, say if you want to read it with a Braille display or something.

I use it sometimes, but I wish I had a lighter camera or something that I could use with my Mac, but since VR got it for me, well, this is what I must use, and at least I have something that will let me read mail, pap[erback books, etc.

It only took me 15 minute of in-person training to get used to the device. Perhaps not even that, since the guy was interrupted by a couple of phone calls from other employees of his.

Jane




On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jane,
> 
> Thank you for your response.  How do you like it?  Is it simple to
> use?  I don't know much about the devise, but sounded interesting from
> what I read.
> 
> On 4/23/13, Jane <juanitatighan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a SARA right on the thing above my desk. It won't handle hand-written
>> stuff. Very few scanning solutions can, because han-writing is so different
>> for every one.
>> 
>> Jane
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 23, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Hope you are doing well.  I was wondering if any of you have used a
>>> devise called Scanning And Reading Appliance (SARA) from Freedom
>>> Scientific?  I currently have Kurzweil, but was interested in hearing
>>> if anyone knew if it handled documents better than Kurzweil?  For
>>> example, at least with my version of Kurzweil, you can't really do
>>> anything with handwritten text.  Can SARA support these types of
>>> documents?  Just curious if anyone first hand could provide any
>>> information on this devise.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Justin
>>> 
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