I had for some time considered that the Docuscan/Hovercam combination
would be the most cost effective replacement especially as I use both
Mac and PC.
However the Docuscan Hovercam bundle appears to have disappeared. This
makes me suspect that it did not actually work that well. In fact the
options for visually impaired people appears to have contracted since I
last looked at it. The camera scanning solutions at Computer Room,
Humanware Sight and Sound or RNIB websites are either non-existent or
extremely limited. For example Sight and Sound appear only now to sell
the Pearl open Book system for over £1,000 and a Freedom Scientific
version of EyePal at £1,700.
Both these systems appear to lock the camera into proprietary software
solutions as far as I am aware.
I can buy a hovercam "Visualiser" from Amazon for about £400 but the
reviews are pretty dreadful and there does not seem any reassurance that
the Camera will work well with For example Kurzweil, Abby Finereader
etc. I would be happy to buy Docuscan as well if it was guaranteed to
work well and reliably with the camera.
I am keen not to repeat the mistake of the Eyepal where basically a
high quality camera was let down by buggy unreliable and frustrating
software.
What camera based document OCR scanning setups are people using
effectively now?
David Griffith
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