[Reader-users] Newbie Questions

[Mike Freeman]

The polarizer is the little disk that is wedged on top of the camera 
lens. In normal use, it shouldn't come off.

Mike

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cindy Handel
  To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
  Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 7:16 AM
  Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Newbie Questions


  Hi,

  The Reader doesn't read the front of credit cards well, but it will 
read the
  back, including the three digit number you're asking about.

  I believe it will take a little practice to get it to read the books, 
but it
  will do it.  Be sure you're holding the camera high enough when 
shooting the
  picture.  If you're taking a picture of both pages of the book, at the 
same
  time, the camera will probably have to be higher than the standard
  recommended 16 inches.

  I also have the same question about the polarizers.  I don't know what 
this
  is and have never done anything with it in the time I've had my 
Reader...a
  year and a half.

  Cindy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Chris Meredith" <cmered at microsoft.com>
  To: <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
  Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 6:59 PM
  Subject: [Reader-users] Newbie Questions


  Greetings.

  I just received my device yesterday, and have a few questions:

  *         Can the device scan plastic cards (i.e. the CVV numbers on 
credit
  cards, etc.)?  I've tried both my Microsoft Developer Network 
membership
  card and my employee badge, and the only thing I can seem to get a fix 
on is
  the bus pass sticker on my employee badge.

  *         Pitfalls I'm likely to run into using this to scan books or
  magazines?  This seemed initially a nice way to read a book on, say, a
  rather long flight I've got to take in the next while without having 
to have
  scanned in the entire book in the first place, but books are something 
I'm
  getting very inconsistent results on (it should be noted that smaller
  documents, as well as the bus schedules by the various stops here, 
read
  fine).

  *         Whilst I see, in the documentation, a section on "installing 
or
  realigning the polarizers", I see nothing in the docs about where the
  polarizers ARE in the first place.  Is this by design?



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The polarizer is the little disk that is wedged on top of the camera lens. In normal use, it shouldn't come off.
 
Mike
 
----- Original Message -----
From:
mailto:cindy425 at verizon.net Cindy Handel
To:
mailto:reader-users at nfbnet.org Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
Sent:
Saturday, November 03, 2007 7:16 AM
Subject:
Re: [Reader-users] Newbie Questions
Hi,
The Reader doesn't read the front of credit cards well, but it will read the
back, including the three digit number you're asking about.
I believe it will take a little practice to get it to read the books, but it
will do it.  Be sure you're holding the camera high enough when shooting the
picture.  If you're taking a picture of both pages of the book, at the same
time, the camera will probably have to be higher than the standard
recommended 16 inches.
I also have the same question about the polarizers.  I don't know what this
is and have never done anything with it in the time I've had my Reader...a
year and a half.
Cindy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Meredith" < mailto:cmered at microsoft.com cmered at microsoft.com
>
To: < mailto:reader-users at nfbnet.org reader-users at nfbnet.org
>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 6:59 PM
Subject: [Reader-users] Newbie Questions
Greetings.
I just received my device yesterday, and have a few questions:
*         Can the device scan plastic cards (i.e. the CVV numbers on credit
cards, etc.)?  I've tried both my Microsoft Developer Network membership
card and my employee badge, and the only thing I can seem to get a fix on is
the bus pass sticker on my employee badge.
*         Pitfalls I'm likely to run into using this to scan books or
magazines?  This seemed initially a nice way to read a book on, say, a
rather long flight I've got to take in the next while without having to have
scanned in the entire book in the first place, but books are something I'm
getting very inconsistent results on (it should be noted that smaller
documents, as well as the bus schedules by the various stops here, read
fine).
*         Whilst I see, in the documentation, a section on "installing or
realigning the polarizers", I see nothing in the docs about where the
polarizers ARE in the first place.  Is this by design?
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