<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">For efficiently reading physical mail, it depends on several things: how much mail you have, and if you intend to save the OCRed text for future use. I've found Seeing AI's document reader to work well. Enable Document Detection, scan the document, and save it if needed.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 21, 2025, at 10:07 PM, PLipovsky via NJTechDiv <<a href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" class="">njtechdiv@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">What about reading mail?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Best,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">Patricia A Lipovsky<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">(386) 255-0288, Home<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">(386) 212-6627, Cell<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:plipovsky@cfl.rr.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" class="">plipovsky@cfl.rr.com</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>NJTechDiv <<a href="mailto:njtechdiv-bounces@nfbnet.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">njtechdiv-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Andy via NJTechDiv<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, June 21, 2025 8:46 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>New Jersey Technology Division List <<a href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">njtechdiv@nfbnet.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Andy <<a href="mailto:guitarwizandy@optonline.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">guitarwizandy@optonline.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [NJTechDiv] OpenBook<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">It depends on what you're trying to do. Most people seem to be using JAWS's OCR features. In general, JAWS's OCR features have just about replaced OpenBook. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">I think the initial rationale behind incorporating OCR into JAWS was to give users seamless access to inaccessible PDF documents, inaccessible dialogs, etc. From there, it evolved into a pretty stable and workable solution. You can OCR documents, scan documents and Word files and PDFs, etc. For bulk scanning and reading for physical documents, people seem to be using the PEARL camera. I have no experience with PEARL.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">At one point maybe a year ago, Freedom Scientific was selling OpenBook licenses for somewhere around $50. When I asked them about abandonment, no one gave me a clear answer. I strongly suspect it has indeed been abandoned. There is a similar product on the market, Kurzweil 1000. I'm not sure of the status of Kurzweil.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">What are you trying to do, though? I'm finding that Be My Eyes and Seeing AI are sufficient for OCRing physical documents.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">On Jun 21, 2025, at 8:04 PM, Brian Shell via NJTechDiv <<a href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">njtechdiv@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Hi,<br class="">Does anyone know if OpenBook has been abandoned? The last version I can find on FS website looks to be from 2018. 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