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

[Justin Young]

Very interesting.  Thanks for the feedback/responses to my multiple questions.

Justin

On 4/23/13, Jane <juanitatighan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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