[nfbcs] Kurzweil and Other Input

[Steve Jacobson]

This isn't easy to answer because what comes with a scanner varies so much and some are more accessible.  What is meant by Scanning into Kurzweil?  If 
one's scanner has a button on the front and one presses that button and it brings up Kurzweil, that can certainly be changed so that it doesn't do that.  One 
could still start Kurzweil first and then use Kurzweil's keys to start a scan.  Whether the scanners button starts Kurzweil or not, though, the software that 
came with the scanner very likely has a "copier" function somewhere.  While it probably is intended to be run by pressing a button on your scanner, it can 
usually also be run as a program and you can set options and press a copy button.  Some scanners have more than one button on the front and one can 
program one button to start a copier function and another to start Kurzweil.  One would have to find where to do that, though.  It is usually in the software 
that came with the scanner.  I have used a very old HP scanner and a newer Cannon scanner and both have copy utilities.  

Having Kurzweil process a page and then save it with images and finally printing it might do pretty well but it really isn't a photo copy and some aspects 
could have changed.  Kurzweil generally captures the image in a file, and printing that might work.  A photo copy utility usually has some options such as 
allowing one to darken or lighten a copy and it may allow you to specify some characteristics of the input.  If you have a black-and-white printer, for 
example, specifying whether you want the input document scanned as a color document, black-and-whit or gray scale may affect the quality of the output.  
Again, one can't say which will work the best because it can depend upon the printer to some degree.  If wan finds the photo copy utility, it is worth 
experimenting when one can have someone look at the output or use an Optacon on it to see which settings work best.  I am not an advanced Kurzweil 
user, and it is possible there is something offered that would do copying as well.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:19:52 -0400, Tracy Carcione wrote:

>I was asking a friend this very thing a couple days ago.  He said that my
>scanner came with software, and I could scan the doc with that software,
>which would just take a picture of it.  I didn't try it, though.
>Alternately, Kurzweil has an option to "save with images".  Don't know if
>that would do the trick, but it might.
>HTH.
>Tracy

>> I have a problem that I keep forgetting to ask about. I have Kurzweil 1000
>> set up so that, whenever I scan, it goes directly into Kurzweil. However,
>> there are times that I need to make photo copies of things. Is there a way
>> to have Kurzweil on the computer, but not have the scanning go directly to
>> Kurzweil?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nicole
>>
>>
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