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

[Sophie Trist]

I'm sorry. I thought the KNFB reader was the same as the 
Kurtzwile device. That's the one I was wondering about.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
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Date sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:19:45 -0500
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Kurzweil

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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From: Jane <juanitatighan at gmail.com
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Date sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:58:25 -0400
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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?

----- Original Message -----
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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