[blindlaw] KNFB READER, AnyoneUsingIt?

[Robert Munro]

How about being handed documents at the last minute in court or at a negotiation or board meeting?  Also, meeting with a client who has not prepaired in advance: having the KNFB Reader would let you read any documents the client had quickly, rather than having the client read them or having to wait until you got back to the office.

On May 9, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Roger Baccus wrote:

> My counselor feels that it is a good thing to have. However, she does not see it as essential for my job. I can't come up with impelling reasons to justify it. I am sure that Although I don't possess OpenBook or equivalent, I do have access to scan material at work.
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> Here is the response from rehab.
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> Roger,
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> I appreciate your request for a KNFB Reader but I'm still not clear on what print would need to be read while you are at a conference or other venue. Would you be given new printed material without explanation?  Do you have a scanner and software (like Open Book) that you are using now at ULVA and/or at home to access printed material?  Also, if you are at a conference and given information (such as would be on a business card or brochure) could you keep it to scan at the office?  If someone is giving you information at a conference you can put it right into the MPower including contact names and phone numbers or you could save their business card to scan and save later at work right?  If you are listening to a presentation at a conference you can record the notes in the MPower.  The hand-outs at conferences are usually the same information that is presented verbally and could be scanned and saved when back at the office.  I agree that shopping without access to print is a little more challenging but we have to relate it to a work need. I'm trying to figure out if using the Mpower and existing equipment if you can find a way to accommodate.  Can you give me more explanation?
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Clark" <goldflash9 at sbcglobal.net>
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> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] KNFB READER, AnyoneUsingIt?
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>> Hi Roger,
>> The KNFB Reader is quite effective.  I have the mobile version, and expected that it would be useful, but its accuracy surprised me.  In my experience, at least in so far as reading letters and other similar documents which contain paragraphs of text, it seems to be every bit as accurate as the regular Kurzweil or Abbyy OCR software.  Soon after I received it, I was reading something with it and my husband walked into the room, overheard it reading, and was blown away on how well it had recognized the text.  I've also used it to read receipts and check cooking directions on packages.
>> Other than that, I haven't had much extensive use with it, so can't comment on how it would handle tables and other things that are specially formmatted.  But if its OCR with letters, etc is any indication, it would seem that it would handle the specially formatted items as well as Kursweil does.
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>> Sarah
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Baccus" <rogerbaccus at gmail.com>
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>> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:36 PM
>> Subject: [blindlaw] KNFB READER, AnyoneUsingIt?
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>>> How effective is the KNFB Reader in everyday reading situations? I like it. How can I justify getting State Rehab to buy one?
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