[blindlaw] Angie and the K-NFB Reader

Angie Matney angie at mpmail.net
Wed Apr 25 21:22:17 CDT 2007 

Hi Craig and Albert,

Thanks for the comments on my KNFB Reader podcast. I've found it very helpful in classroom situations when I'm given a handout. I had one professor last semester who never could remember to email me his handouts. Since I had the 
Reader, I just stopped asking after a while. I was still able to follow what was happening in class. This could definitely be useful when you need to quickly review documents. I don't use it every day in class, but when I need it, it's truly 
wonderful.

Re: K1000. I don't have  K1000, but I believe Dennis Clark has both programs. Maybe he or Sarah could comment on the differences. 

Someone (can't remember who, sorry) pointed out that if you only need OCR capabilities, ABBYY is probably your best bet. If you need the special features of Kurzweil, then it becomes a good choice. ABBYY also costs about half as 
much as Kurzweil. It is very accessible with JAWS, and the scans are absolutely superb. 

I use ABBYY Finereader and my fujitsu scanner to scan all of my books for class. I can read pages and pages of my casebooks without finding a single error. I have also scanned a book with parts of the tax code for my federal income 
tax class. I can very quickly find the section my professor refers to because the OCR was so good. I figured out that if I typed the section number followed by a period, it would most likely take me straight to the beginning of the section. I 
use a braille display in class, and this makes it very easy to follow along when the professor asks us to turn to a particular section in the code. (Actually, I have two copies of this book. After I had scanned it, the bookstore somehow got 
a pdf of the book, and I ran this through ABBYY and converted it to a Word file.) 

Hope this info is helpful.

Angie

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:11:01 -0400, albert griffith wrote:

>Angie, I believe you have K1000.  How do think it compares to the off the
>shelf programs?  thanks 

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>From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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>Subject: [blindlaw] Angie and the K-NFB Reader

>Angie,
>By the way, you did a great job on your K-NFB Reader Pod cast.  Now nearly a
>year later, what are your thoughts on the device?  How about in a legal
>setting and all of the document review that can accompany that?
>Thank you,
>Craig

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Angie Matney
>Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:13 PM
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>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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