Sorry, it was the VICS list that I was trying to reply to (last week, on a similar thread.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:42 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: o c r scanners yes, Eleanor. Susan, You would use a scanner to scan the document. then you could use the tool from Microsoft office to perform optical character recognition on it. As I indicated in my off-list reply of last week, as my reply to here didn't make it, that OCR tool is (or was) not good by itself, i.e., for blind use. If you want an off-the-shelf OCR product, you'll need to learn how to use it with JAWS (or any other screen-reader) for adequate results. Finally, an upgrade to an existing Kurzweil1000 from any version to the current one will cost about £130.----- Original Message -----
From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:14 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: o c r scanners
Sorry I don't understand. Let me explain what I understand about scanning. I would presume that you had say a letter to scan. You would place this on your scanner but using the scanner software this would produce an image which could not be accessed by a screen reader. In conjunction on your PC as well as the scanner software you will require OCR software. Then you will go in to the OCR software and do the scan. This way your screen reader will access the OCR scanned document, e.g. your letter. For example I have K1000 so if I want to scan a letter, I open K1000 and have my scanner on. Then from the Menu I go to Scan and the job gets done. Now I may not have understood you and perhaps there is a function in Office that I am unaware of and if so my apologies. ----- Original Message -----From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:51 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: o c r scannershi eleanor, we will be scanning from microsoft office. susan----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:36 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: o c r scannersI think you mean scanning software as there is not a specific scanner. Any scanner will do the job but you might like to think of abbeyfinereader, K1000 which is much more expensive, OmniPage and so on. I think if you are usjing JAWS there is some OCR software incorporated in to it but do not know if that works from a scanner. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:49 PM Subject: [vip_students] o c r scannershi folks, can any one recommend a basic o, c, r, scanner. many thanks best wishes susan -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter has removed 1832 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/lenDo you have a slow PC? Try a Free scan http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen