[gui-talk] K1000 and the convention?

[albert griffith]

The KNFB reader can't match the K1000 for long scans.

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From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Evelyn Weckerly
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 1:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] K1000 and the convention?

Hi, Les,

I guess I should also have said that I have lots of other stuff here, 
including books. The plain fact is that k1000 is stil a lot faster 
and best for a long session of reading. Yes, it will be interesting 
to see where things go. It's an excellent program as is too.

Evelyn

At 12:48 PM 5/25/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Evelyn,
>
>I understand.  I was pondering how things have changed, as before, we
>depended on scanners for book reading, and now the technology has advanced
>to the point where so much more reading material is available.  Certainly,
>K1000 has a place as do the other scanning packages, but I do wonder what
>form future upgrades will take.
>
>Les
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Evelyn Weckerly
>Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:34 AM
>To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] K1000 and the convention?
>
>Hi, Les,
>
>I still use mine. I get some print magazines and will not willingly give it
>up.
>
>Evelyn
>
>At 03:50 AM 5/25/2009, you wrote:
> >Hi Evelyn,
> >
> >I do wonder what significance would come out of an upgrade now.  With
> >the explosion of daisy and corresponding players, I would think the
> >direction of K1000 would at least change.  I wonder how many people scan
>books any more?
> >AT the very least, I would think scanning of books is significantly
>reduced.
> >
> >Les
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> >On Behalf Of Evelyn Weckerly
> >Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:23 PM
> >To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> >Subject: Re: [gui-talk] K1000 and the convention?
> >
> >Albert,
> >
> >Last year at the users' meeting, Stephen Baum said that they had to
> >work on K3000, and that after that was done, they would be working on
> >our next upgrade. He said that since Cambrian had bought KESI, K1000
> >had sold very well. Still, I resent what I see as our being shoved into
> >a corner--again, and I expressed as much, quite mehemently. I think
> >it's been three years since we have had an upgrade, and I think my
> >memory is pretty good, especially since I'm getting a free one (smile).
> >
> >Evelyn
> >
> >At 07:00 PM 5/24/2009, you wrote:
> > >I see Steve Ballmer is going to make an appearance at the convention.
> > >They haven't updated the K1000 in quite a few years.  I hope there's
> > >some progress along those lines.  When I asked a few years ago it
> > >seemed Kurzweil couldn't get access to the new OCR packages since the
> > >two companies were trying to enter the OCR market in a bigger way.
> > >Maybe they're ready to let go of one of their later versions.  Has
> > >anyone heard anything?  thanks
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