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

Wed Apr 24 00:47:11 UTC 2013

What about the KNFB reader? Is it the same size as the SARA?

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Jane <juanitatighan at gmail.com
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Date sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:58:25 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Scanning And Reading Appliance (SARA) vs. 
Kurzweil

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?

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 From: Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com
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 Date sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:29:03 -0400
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Kurzweil

 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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