[nabs] Benefits of Kerzweil?

[Laura Glowacki]

Dornetta:

If you bought your scanner in the past couple of years, chances 
are that it'll work.  Kurzweil tech support told me over the 
summer that most scanners bought nowadays will work and that it 
just had to be Twain compatible or something... that's easy 
enough to google if you have the model number.

Hopefully someone else knows more about pricing.  And honestly I 
don't necessarily prefer one over the other.  I used openbook for 
DOS as a kid on my mom's really old computer and use Kurzweil 
now.  I think the two are fairly comparable in abilities and ease 
of use.  I seem to remember someone mentioning that Openbook is 
generally easier to learn though because it uses the typical 
windows shortcuts whereas Kurzweil's key shortcuts are a little 
different in some ways.

As far as your focusing problem with the kurzweil nfb reader, do 
you still have the cd information that came with it?  I got a 
tutorial with mine which described a lot of the steps and 
features that would aid in focusing the camera.  Perhaps that was 
one of the downsides of the older ones though; I'm not sure.

HTH,
Laura


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dornetta" <dornetta at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion list for NABS,National Alliance of Blind 
Students." <nabs at acb.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs] Benefits of Kerzweil?


Laura:
This is helpful and honestly...I DO NOT like the older version of 
the
Kerzweil that I have. for reason unknow to me...I cannot seem to 
capture the
image correct. :-( Is the Kerzweil software affordable or rather 
more
affordable than the Open Book software? Which is more easier to 
use and/or
scann? And does any scanner work? I have an epson  8200 
scanner/printer. Any
information would appreciated and thanks for your quick 
response...
Netta
"Just because you are blind, does not mean you lack 
vision"-Stevie Wonder
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Glowacki" <orangebutterfly87 at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion list for NABS,National Alliance of Blind 
Students."
<nabs at acb.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs] Benefits of Kerzweil?


> Dornetta,
>
> The Kurzweil that we were talking about before, the thread I
> believe that was started by Olivia talking about pdfs, is the
> software program you install on a pc and use in conjunction 
> with
> a scanner to scan printed materials and then convert it to
> readable text.  The program also converts pdf and some other
> image files in to text, and it does serve as basically a
> functional word processing program and has spellcheck etc.
>
> The camera thing that I think you're referring to is the older
> knfb reader wich is ... well for similar purposes.  But 
> obviously
> a pc and scanner is more powerful and will turn out better
> results sometimes, can be faster if you need to scan a lot of
> pages, and isn't inconvenient if your near a computer all of 
> the
> time.
>
> HTH,
> Laura
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dornetta" <dornetta at gmail.com>
> To: "National Alliance of Blind Students" <nabs at acb.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 1:56 PM
> Subject: [nabs] Benefits of Kerzweil?
>
>
> BlankHello all!
> I have heard a few of yall mention the Kerzweil. I currently 
> have
> the older model-camera  attachment but am wondering about this
> "other" product you all are speaking of. What is it and what 
> are
> the venefits?
> Any information will be helpful :-)
> Thanks,
> Dornetta
> "Just because you are blind, does not mean you lack
> vision"-Stevie Wonder
>
>
>
>
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