[Reader-users] Classic Reader: When Text Just Can't Be Found

[Pam Drake]

I have a question for the more experienced users of the Classic Reader.

My skill with the Classic Reader has improved significantly; but I have 
found certain documents on which existing text just can't be found.  I am an 
Optacon user, and have verified that there is text on these pages.  The text 
is sometimes rather difficult to read with the Optacon and so I can 
understand why the Reader might have trouble, but this isn't always the 
case, and I can't figure out why the text isn't being found, let alone, 
read, after several tries at varying distances.

Sometimes after a "no text found" message appears I can locate the text with 
the Optacon, hold the Reader very, very close to the approximate location, 
and get part or all of the text; but sometimes this just isn't possible.

At such times I'm glad I have the Optacon; but even though I own three of 
them there may come a time when they all become irreparable, and of course 
the Reader is more portable than a standard scanner.

Continuing the scenario, I can see an envelope arriving at the address of a 
Reader user with no convenient sighted help and apparently no text is found 
on the document inside.

In those situations where there is no sighted reader and no other means of 
determining the text of a document, is there any way of giving the reader a 
better chance for access before taking it somewhere to be read?
 I have studied the manual, but this is a mystery to me.

Finally, will the upgraded Reader have an easier time reading the odd text, 
now or in the future?  I'm still deciding whether to upgrade.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Pam