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

[Jane]

It's not portable. It's the size of a flat-bed scanner. Once it's set up, it stays there.

Jane





On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:

> How large is the SARA? Because I tried using some OCR apps on the iPhone, and I will keep trying them but I don't find them to work too well. Is the SARA portable?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com
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> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Scanning And Reading Appliance (SARA) vs. Kurzweil
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> 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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