[nabs-l] Tool for accessing print materials.

Josh Gregory joshkart12 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 03:12:52 UTC 2013 

Chris, not to detract from your original point, but sometimes there are just times when a scanner just is plainly not available, such as when disability support staff are unavailable, or when the dexterity issues of a student such as myself bring difficulty to the table as far as proficiently operating a scanner. Not To get to off-topic, but you know me well, and you sort of know what I can and can't do, Now to sort of relate to this, there are different scanners out there which may work for some, may not work for others. I, however,  prefer online methods as they're much easier to operate as long as documents are in electronic format, which, happily, is becoming more and more the case nowadays thanks to more and more advances in electronic technology, such as blackboard and other online college teaching methods.

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> On Oct 4, 2013, at 10:57 PM, christopher nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes—RoboBraille is awesome! However, I still see a place for dedicated
> OCR software, as RoboBraille can't scan printed text in a hardcopy
> format. Even if a print document were scanned with a mainstream
> scanner without OCR software, it would scan to either a JPEG or image
> PDF file, which I don't think Robobraille can convert.
> 
> Chris Nusbaum
> 
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>> On Oct 4, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been using RoboBraille for the past two years or so, after Vejas
>> on this list told me about it. It's really amazing. I've stopped using
>> Kurzweil because RoboBraille is more accurate, and free. Hoping this
>> free service will help cut down on students' reliance on expensive OCR
>> technology (which IMHO doesn't do as good of a job).
>> 
>> Arielle
>> 
>>> On 10/4/13, Dan Burke <dburke at cocenter.org> wrote:
>>> Looking through the web site, it is RoboBraille.  Just a new home page that
>>> emphasizes that it is somehow an initiative of and for higher education, and
>>> without the language choices on the RoboBraille site.
>>> 
>>> Dan
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Josh Gregory
>>> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 5:10 AM
>>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Tool for accessing print materials.
>>> 
>>> Just pointing this out, but doesn't Robobraille pretty much do the same
>>> thing?
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 4, 2013, at 6:59 AM, christopher nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Does this require that an account be set up?
>>>> 
>>>> Chris Nusbaum
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 4, 2013, at 1:33 AM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I saw the email about the Reading Project, and thought it would be a
>>>>> good time to share a useful link.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My university's Office of Learning Resources has just implimented a
>>>>> tool that allows students to upload files of varrying filetypes to a
>>>>> service that will convert them to accessible files and email them back
>>>>> to you.  This is great for those times when your professor gives you a
>>>>> last-minute worksheet, or if you just can't make it to the DS office
>>>>> before it closes but don't want to wait another day to get your copy
>>>>> of the homework.  It's called Sensus Access.  There are four easy
>>>>> steps to getting your file converted, and emails usually reach my
>>>>> inbox in 5 minutes or less.  I would highly recommend you talk to your
>>>>> DS offices about it because, although the editting isn't perfect, it's
>>>>> great for getting materials on demand.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've included a link so you can see the basics of what it's like.  I
>>>>> can't vouch for if this site will work for everyone, (as I have to
>>>>> actually access a page specific to my university and haven't used this
>>>>> one before), but it looks like you might be able to test it out.
>>>>> http://sensusaccess.com/
>>>>> --
>>>>> Kaiti
>>>>> 
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