[bksvol-discuss] Cookbooks, WAS: Re: Re: question please thank you.
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:51:22 -0500
Hi Evan and everyone!
Several years ago, I bought a print cookbook for a blind friend, because it
had a recipe she had been looking for for some time. I scanned and
proofread the scan, correcting the fractions with the optacon. It was
quite labor intensive, but I enjoy doing that sort of thing. She was
thrilled with the book. This was before I had heard of bookshare. This
must have been six or seven years ago. I am in the process of scanning all
of my cookbooks and of course, putting all of them on Bookshare, but have
slowed down considerably since I started proofreading. Bookshare has all I
have finished so far.
Debby
At 10:34 AM 3/26/2010, EVAN REESE wrote
A totally blind person with an Optacon could do it, although those
fractions can be quite small. Still, I've used my Optacon to check and
make corrections to fractions for a few recipes in a book or two that
didn't scan well. It would be a hassle if there were a lot of them,
though, say a whole recipe book where the fractions didn't come out. Yet I
think a sufficiently dedicated person with good Optacon skills could do it
if they really wanted to.
Evan
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we've had a lot of troble with cookbooks. I don't think so.
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Can a totally blind person proof a recipe book?
Gwen
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