[nabs-l] All-in-one Printers compatible with Kurzweil?

[Arielle Silverman]

I own a Canon MX 700 printer/scanner/copier and it works fine with
Kurzweil. However, I would honestly recommend RoboBraille over any OCR
program. RoboBraille is a free email-based service that provides OCR
of scanned PDF's and other images within a few minutes. I actually
think the OCR quality is better than the OCR quality I get from
Kurzweil 90% of the time, and the OCR version is sent back in properly
formatted Microsoft Word, not a file format you have to either save in
Kurzweil or paste into a Word doc and lose all the formatting. Because
of these advantages I've completely stopped using Kurzweil and don't
plan to upgrade my copy. Frankly, I don't see the justification for
having students or rehab agencies spend money on a program that
generates less accurate and less user-friendly OCR output than
something that's free.
To use RoboBraille, send the image document as an attachment to
convert at robobraille.org
and put "doc" in the subject line (leave the body blank).
I have only done this with scanned PDF's but I believe that
RoboBraille can also handle TIF, JPG and other image formats that your
scanner will generate for you.
Best,
Arielle

On 5/16/13, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
> this printer sounds very cool!
>
> On 5/16/13, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Justin,
>>
>> I would definitely look at the resource Bridgit provided to you in her
>> note.
>> With this said, I use the HP 8600 all-in-one printer. This machine is an
>> all-in-one printer, scanner, faxer and copier. What's really cool about
>> this
>> model is that the computer software has a built-in OCR engine. This means
>> you are able to scan a document and tell the software to automatically do
>> OCR on it. Once this is completed, a standard "save as" dialogue box will
>> come up. The document will by default be saved as a rich text (RTF) file,
>> which you can open in Microsoft Word or any other similar
>> worde-processing
>> program. This negates the need for Kurzweil, and is a much cheaper
>> scanning
>> solution.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Chris Nusbaum, Co-Chair
>> Public Relations Committee
>> Maryland Association of Blind Students
>> Phone: (443) 547-2409
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Justin Young
>> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:09 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: [nabs-l] All-in-one Printers compatible with Kurzweil?
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Hope the end of your semesters are treating you well!  I was wondering if
>> any knew of any all-in-one Printers that were compatible with Kurzweil?
>> I
>> don't know enough about technology to know how to even answer this
>> question,
>> but I was thinking of getting one and wanted to make sure I knew what to
>> look for.  As always any suggestions offered are always appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justin
>>
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