nice website, but any attempt to shop there results in an image asking me to select my region and then I get nothing. I hate it when they use flash to map an image.
-Eric On Oct 26, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello there. > Fine reader express for the mac works very well and the recognition engine is > one of the best. > They have a trial copy that you can test with your mac. > goto. > www.abbyy.com > > Later. > > On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:49 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> well, >> I am not sure about the accessible scanner software. however, you can do >> most of your word processing on the mac. I didn't know that microsoft office >> was available for the mac. The one thing I can tell you is that the mac is >> not a respectable part of the marketplace and a lot of blind people who use >> computers also like the mac (those that have one anyway). >> >> I don't use windows here as I don't have the funds to get the accessibility >> software. I haven't tried looking around for good OCR software yet (but I do >> see a need for it). I may have to have someone help me bring my windows box >> back up and install NVDA and see what I can do with it. there's plenty of >> cheap software for the windows PC, but like anything else, it requires funds >> I don't currently have. >> >> -Eric >> >> On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Sharon Ballantyne wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I have not used the mac computer systems in about fifteen years but am >>> making the final decisions for my purchase of an IMac. Does anyone have >>> advice. I am a totally blind user. I have decided it will be most useful to >>> bootcamp my computer so as to have scanning capabilities. I am told there >>> is no accessible software on the Mac for my scanning needs? I ahve been >>> using kerzweil. Right now I am planning to go with Freedom Scientific's >>> openbook and the Freedom Scientific Pearl which is portable and uses a >>> camera rather than a flat bed scanner. Before I make that commitment I want >>> to be sure there is nothing out there for the Mac. >>> >>> I am planning to use iwork but there have been some suggestions I go with >>> Microsoft for Mac. I currently use Jaws 11 on a windows 7 with Microsoft >>> office 2007. >>> >>> My primary uses on the computer are: word processing, excel, e-mail and >>> internet searches as well as scanning outlined above. I have no technical >>> background. >>> >>> It was suggested I get 500 gb and a separate 500 gb external drive for >>> backup rather than the 1 terabite. >>> If anyone has any advice to throw in before I make the final purchase >>> decisions, that would be great. >>> >>> E-mail off list can be sent to: >>> sbal...@nexicom.net >>> >>> Thank-you, >>> Sharon in Canada >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
