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

[Justin Young]

Hi Joe,

Do you need a specific scanner to go with this product or will any one
work fine?  I was told that with Kurzweil you had to use specific
scanners that would only work with Kurzweil.  Thanks for the
suggestion haven't heard of this product before so I'm gonna
definitely look into it.

Justin

On 4/25/13, Joe <jsoro620 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, go with ABBYY Finereader. It's a mainstream off-the-shelf product, is a
> lot cheaper than the assistive options, and works ten times better than
> Kurzweil or Openbook ever will.--Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Justin Young
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:02 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Scanning And Reading Appliance (SARA) vs. Kurzweil
>
> 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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