[Reader-users] scanning books with the reader

[Jan Bailey]

In all honesty, I use K1000 for scanning books, but on packages, some mail, 
and so forth, I have gotten better scans from the KNFB reader, but if I were 
going to scan a lot of books, I would do it with the K1000, because you can 
keep scanning while you're reading.

Jan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Martineau" <dean at topdotenterprises.com>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:04 AM
Subject: [Reader-users] scanning books with the reader


>I don't know that I recommend the Reader as a primary solution for scanning 
>books. the stand will probably improve the situation somewhat, and the 
>update doubtless won't hurt, but I don't get consistently high-quality 
>scans. I am dubious about results that have the reader outperforming the 
>K-1000, given all the configuration options found in the K-1000 that are 
>lacking in the reader. With a good scanner, K-1000 is definitely much 
>faster. If scanning two pages simultaneously, the Reader will not treat 
>them as separate pages. this may not matter, but you would be hard-pressed, 
>for instance, to use the Reader to scan and then validate books for 
>Bookshare.
> Given its price, I hope I'm wrong about these assertions, but they 
> represent my experience and impressions. Sometimes, we really want a thing 
> to work, but in the light of experience, it does not.
> Dean
>


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