[gui-talk] K1000 and the convention?

[George and Pamela Dominguez]

I just replaced my scanner.  The new one is supposed to be coming today.  I 
will use it for everything I can and need to read; mail, books, etc.  Pam.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Evelyn Weckerly" <weckerly at i2k.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:33 AM
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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