It is a Windows OCR product for blind that has been ported to the Mac. It
is made by ABISEE Company http://www.abisee.com. And the process for
getting the Apple version of the software is as follows at this time.
1. Purchase the Windows version of Eye-Pal from Abisee or a dealor of Abisee
products such as Handy Tech North America 651-636-5184. Then you go to the
Abisee website and download Pro.
the Apple version of the software onto your Apple and install it. All that
is left to do then is plug the camera into a USB on your Mac and you are
ready to go. Meantime, if you already had Kurzweil1000 on the Windows side
of your Mac in Bootcamp you could now have your choice of using a scanner
with K1000 or using the Eye-Pal digital camera with K1000; which wil colaps
into a very easy to cary bundle you can carry in a laptop case with your
Macbook
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Miller" <brianrmille...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 6:01 AM
Subject: RE: scanning and the mac
What is iPal? Is it an apple off-the-shelf scanning software program?
Or
is it a Kurzweil product?
Brian M
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Antonio M. Guimaraes
Jr.
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:01 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: scanning and the mac
The iPal now works on a Mac.
It is self-voicing.
I never considered one, but just heard from a doctoral student friend of
mine who swears by it, and its speed.
Antonio Guimaraes
On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Caitlyn and Nickels wrote:
Hi,
We have been kicking around the idea of getting a couple of new macs
for a couple of weeks now since bothour pc's are not working that great
anymore.
The main thing that is holding us back is our heavy reliance on
Kurzweil. I am a grad student and we also use k1000 for scanning our
mail daily. I know we could either do a duel boot system or run a
virtual machine and then can use k1000 this way on the mac, but I
wanted to ask knowledgable folks first about this before we jumped in.
We heard about another kurzweil product that is for the mac, but it's not
self voicing, and I don't know if vo works with it. Does anybody have
any
mac specific solutions that work well for scanning text books? For
scanning the types we all get in the post? I use the bookmark
features in k1000 quite a lot, plus the dictionary a lot and have
preferred it a lot for the proof reading I do for book share over ms
word.
Oh, that's actually another question, we were told that pages actually
isn't that great or useable...
Lots of this info is coming from people who don't use vo regularly.
For us, though, this scanner stuff is the only thing standing in the way.
We do have a old power book, but it's the old non intel mac, so we're
stuck running leopard on it, can't do a virtual machine or anything on
it, it doesn't support the magic track pad, and we can't upgrade to
snow leopard or anything beyond what we already have on it(we already
called apple about it).
Any help or anything would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Caitlyn
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