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

[Justin Young]

Thanks for all the feedback.  Just curious as I said about SARA
because I've never used it.

Justin

On 4/23/13, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> No, the KNFB Reader is a cell phone with special software.
>
> Dave
>
> p.s.  If you want a truly portable device this is probably your
> highest quality choice at this point.  There are a number of apps for
> the iPhone, and some do a pretty good job, but no one can quite get
> the quality of KNFB Reader yet.
>
> DA
>
>
> At 07:47 PM 4/23/2013, you wrote:
>>What about the KNFB reader? Is it the same size as the SARA?
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Jane <juanitatighan at gmail.com
>>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:58:25 -0400
>>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Scanning And Reading Appliance (SARA) vs. Kurzweil
>>
>>It's not portable. It's the size of a flat-bed scanner. Once it's
>>set up, it stays there.
>>
>>Jane
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>How large is the SARA? Because I tried using some OCR apps on the
>>iPhone, and I will keep trying them but I don't find them to work
>>too well. Is the SARA portable?
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com
>>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:29:03 -0400
>>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Scanning And Reading Appliance (SARA) vs. Kurzweil
>>
>>Very interesting.  Thanks for the feedback/responses to my multiple
>> questions.
>>
>>Justin
>>
>>On 4/23/13, Jane <juanitatighan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>It's very simple to use. It is, literally, a stand-alone device for
>> scanning
>>and listening to stuff. You don't hook it to your ocmputer--the software
>> is
>>inside the machine. You can copy stuff from it onto your computer, say if
>>you want to read it with a Braille display or something.
>>
>>I use it sometimes, but I wish I had a lighter camera or something that I
>>could use with my Mac, but since VR got it for me, well, this is what I
>> must
>>use, and at least I have something that will let me read mail, pap[erback
>>books, etc.
>>
>>It only took me 15 minute of in-person training to get used to the device.
>>Perhaps not even that, since the guy was interrupted by a couple of phone
>>calls from other employees of his.
>>
>>Jane
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>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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