[blindlaw] Angie and the K-NFB Reader

[Ray Wayne]

That subject line sounds like the title of a children's story about the
Reader.  That could be a good way to publicize the Reader, but I will leave
the writing to someone else.
Ray

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Borne" <cjborne at comcast.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:07 PM
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
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> 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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