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

[David Andrews]

No, the KNFB Reader is a cell phone with special software.

Dave

p.s.  If you want a truly portable device this is probably your 
highest quality choice at this point.  There are a number of apps for 
the iPhone, and some do a pretty good job, but no one can quite get 
the quality of KNFB Reader yet.

DA


At 07:47 PM 4/23/2013, you wrote:
>What about the KNFB reader? Is it the same size as the SARA?
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jane <juanitatighan at gmail.com
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:58:25 -0400
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Scanning And Reading Appliance (SARA) vs. Kurzweil
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>It's not portable. It's the size of a flat-bed scanner. Once it's 
>set up, it stays there.
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>Jane
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>On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
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>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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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:29:03 -0400
>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.
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>Justin
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Jane
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>On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Hi Jane,
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>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.
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>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.
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>Jane
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>On Apr 23, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Hi All,
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>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.
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>Thanks,
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>Justin