[blindlaw] bulk scanners

[Jack Chen]

Great site.  Thanks.  Sure, I would love and very much appreciate a pod 
cast.

jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angie Matney" <angie at mpmail.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] bulk scanners


> Hi Jac,
>
> I will do my best to answer your questions. This is also a good time to 
> mention the scanning speed. I have scanned 100 pages of a text book in 
> seven minutes. This is not at all unusual for this scanner. It really does 
> simplify things greatly.
>
> Anyway, I have a Twain driver, which is what I needed for ABBYY. I have 
> WinXP and JFW 8.0. I have to alt-tab to get the focus right where I need 
> it to be to scan something, but this is pretty simple. Maybe I will do a 
> podcast and post
> it to BlindCoolTech or something like that. I actually have just submitted 
> one to that site in which I demonstarte the scanner, but I didn't go into 
> the technical details. If people would be interested in this, let me know. 
> BTW, the
> blindcooltech site is www.blindcooltech.com. You can download individual 
> podcasts without subscribing.
>
> Best,
>
> Angie
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:16:38 -0400, Jack Chen wrote:
>
>>Angie
>
>>It sounds like the FI-5220C is a great scanner.  Would you mind sharing 
>>what
>>your set up is like?  I'm looking to have my firm get me a new scanner, 
>>and
>>I want to make sure my operating system/JAWS version is going to be
>>compatible with the scanner.  What drivers are you using with the scanner,
>>the WIA driver or another driver?
>
>>Thanks
>
>>jack
>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Angie Matney" <angie at mpmail.net>
>>To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:17 AM
>>Subject: Re: [blindlaw] bulk scanners
>
>
>>>I haven't read this entire discussion, but Locke asked if Abbyy 
>>>Finereader
>>>required extra scripting. I haven't seen an snwer to this yet, and I'm
>>>sorry if this is a duplicate message. For my purposes, I haven't had to 
>>>do
>>>anything to make it more
>>> accessible. It works very well right out of the box. I usually type 
>>> alt-p
>>> to enter the "process" menu. Then, I either select "san and read" or 
>>> "open
>>> and read" (this last is for performing OCR on a pdf or some other image
>>> file). When I'm done, I
>>> just go to the file menu and save the results.
>>>
>>> With my scanner, setting it up to work was a bit of a pain. But I was 
>>> able
>>> to do it without sighted assistance. Once you do this in the beginning,
>>> you shouldn't have to do it again. So even if you require sighted
>>> assistance (and I almost caved
>>> and got someone to help--it was not easy), you shouldn't have to do it
>>> past the initial setup. Using Abby itself is very easy. And other 
>>> scanners
>>> come with setup programs that are not so hard to get going. My problems
>>> were only with the
>>> drivers for my scanner, the Fujitsu FI-5220C. This scanner is so
>>> wonderful, though, that going through that first and only setup was well
>>> worth it.
>>>
>>> Angie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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