[Reader-users] Newbie Questions

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

I have not tried this, but xerox the card and then see if the reader
will pick up the numbers.  Let us know if anyone has the time to try it.
I am busy today or I would do it. 
Sure would be a good work around for those in an office.

Terry Powers
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Handel [mailto:cindy425 at verizon.net] 
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 10:17 AM
To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
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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