David, Presumably you have already discounted KNFB reader on a smartphone
for some reason?
I find that the latest version works really well with a stand.
Richard
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David Griffith
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Subject: [access-uk] Camera Scanner
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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