[blindlaw] bulk scanners

[Tai Tomasi]

Joe,

You are correct. A duplex scanner can feed a page in and scan both sides at
once. Generally, most duplex scanners have a much larger document feeder
capacity so that you can put the entire book on the scanner and it will scan
it page by page. The beauty of the most recent Fujitsu scanners is that they
have a nifty feature that detects when two pages have been fed in at once.
If this happens, the scanner will stop until you remedy the problem and then
continue scanning. This is great when you're scanning large books.

I have done a great deal of research on OCR and the ABYY FineReader
character recognition is the best. It does a better job than Kurzweil 1000
and is less prone to crashing. I know that I have trouble with K1000
crashing when I am scanning large amounts of material. Oddly, the Kurzweil
3000 software used by many DSS offices seems to do a better job at OCR than
Kurzweil 1000. To my knowledge, the only difference between K1000 and K3000
is that K1000 was designed specifically for blind folks while K3000 is
targeted toward DSS offices and folks with learning disabilities.
Nevertheless, it seems like K3000 has better OCR software. It could be that
the scanner they use at my university is much better than mine and that is
why K3000 seems to work better than my own scanner and K1000. In any case, I
think ABYY FineReader bests them all.

Tai

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joe Orozco
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:03 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] bulk scanners

    My ignorance is going to show prominently, but can someone describe the
characteristics of a duplex scanner?  Currently, I have a Cannon flatbed
LiDe something or other.  I scan pages one at a time, rather slow, but this
duplex business leads me to believe the scanner can feed paper through and
scan both sides?  Thanks in advance for the clarification.

          Joe

"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells
you to do, and what nerves let you do."--Bruce Crampton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Clark" <dennisgclark at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] bulk scanners


> Hi Robert,
> The Fujitsu's do work with Kurzweil.  I agree with your observation that
> first scanning one side of a batch and then flipping the stack to scan the
> other side creates many problems:  most notably that if 2 pages 
> accidentally
> feed through, the entire batch is corrupted.  I have wasted many hours 
> with
> that process.  It was this frustration that originally caused me to buy a
> Fujitsu duplex scanner.
> All the best,
> Dennis
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Jaquiss" <rjaquiss at earthlink.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] bulk scanners
>
>
>> Hello:
>>
>>     I have used both a Fujitsu FI4010 and a Canon DR2580C. The Canon is
>> small and can have a flatbed option added to it. When looking for a
>> scanner,
>> I would look at the Kurzweil or OpenBook sites for a list of scanners 
>> that
>> have been tested. I sure do like the ability of a scanner to do duplex
>> scanning. If your pages get messed in a simplex scanner, you will have a
>> real mess when you flip the stack over.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Robert Jaquiss
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Deborah Byrne" <deborahbyrne at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Blindlaw" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:46 AM
>> Subject: [blindlaw] bulk scanners
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm getting ready to start law school and I'm planning to request a bulk
>> scanner.  I'm wondering if any of you have advice on which bulk scanners
>> you
>> do or do not recommend and for what reasons?
>> Thanks,
>> Deborah Byrne
>>
>>
>>
>>
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