Hi Ari, wow didn't know about these others I would be very interested in the one from belgem. I did have a look on the site you gave in the email but couldn't understand it. I would be grateful if you could find it in English please Ari. Many thanks Andy S
-----Original Message----- From: Ari Damoulakis
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 7:13 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sarah scanner and read machine Hi Andrew Just so that you do know, I read an article last year about these products where standalone reading machines were compared. In their comparison they found this one to be the most accurate, not the Sara. Here is the English web site. http://www.sensotec.be/products/detail.aspx?ID=349 I will look for the article for you. It was from a Belgian computer magazine for the blind called Infovisie. It is in Dutch, and I could only understand it because its near enough to afrikaans, but you can try google translate it. I'll look for it and email it to you. If I remember, I think the reason they gave for this being the most accurate product was they said the Omnipage engine it uses is better than the Finereader engine Sara apparrently uses, but I can't be sure. The others they also compared were the Poet from Baum and something called Sophie Pro from Handytech in Germany. I don't really remember what their findings were on those two, I just remember that they gave the Sensotec above the best award. I also don't know if they still sell it, but there's also another reading machine from Australia which actually sounds very nice because it has an A3 scanner size, so you can scan the book more easily or at least two pages of a hard book at one time. I'm sorry, but even though it sounds nice I have no idea how good it is and haven't read any reviews of it. The good part about this one is you can order it online, maybe you can email them and ask for more info if you want. http://www.sensorytools.com/excalibur.htm Ari Ari On 1/6/13, andrew shipp <andrew.shipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John, I’ve got the lexmark mfp and I try to scan books in and don’t have hardly any success with it so this is why I’m looking at this machine. From: john coley Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 4:41 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sarah scanner and read machine Hi Andrew, you don't need to spend an arm and a leg on special access tech stuff to read print. All you need is a scanner. You can get a USB scanner,such as the Canon LiDE 210 for 60 quid or so. If you go down the access techroute it'll cost you hundreds to do the same thing. Ok, John. ----- Original Message ----- From: andrew shipp To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 4:14 PM Subject: [access-uk] Sarah scanner and read machine So what is the price of one of these machines? will it read stuff onglossy paper also? will I be able to read my bank statements on it? Imainly would like this for reading gardening books, would it ignore thegraphic? Is there any thing this machine will not read? I think I shallget one as long as all my questions are answered. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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