[blindlaw] bulk scanners

[Tai Tomasi]

They are sold separately.
Tai

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Locke Milholland
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:45 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] bulk scanners

Not to belabor the point, but are the Fujitsu duplex scanner and ABBYY Fine
Reader scanning software bundled or sold seprately?
Thanks,

Locke

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Clark" <dennisgclark at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] bulk scanners


> Hi Joe,
> You've got it.  The pages in the document feeder have both sides scanned 
> at
> once.  This is of course user selectable, so if your document has printing
> on only one side, you would make that selection.  My practice is to have 
> the
> binder cut off my books at Kinko's, and then scan them using the document
> feeder in duplex mode.  I then use ABBYY Finereader to perform OCR on the
> images.  You can then save the document in RTF format.  The RTF document 
> can
> then be read with Kurzweil or Word.
> All the best,
> Dennis
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:02 AM
> 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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