Well, Kurzweil upgrades are quite reasonable. Regardless of what version of
the software you have the upgrade price is $125. So, if you are at version
6 you can go all the way to version 12 for $125 and if there is a new
version within a year I believe that you get it for free, but don't take
that for absolute fact . I am not a Kurzweil dealor and I may be wrong on
the free upgrade to the next version if it comes out within less than a
year. But I do know the upgrade price is $125.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <br...@hostany.net>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: A Question Regarding OCR
No, I haven't upgraded in many years, didn't think the accuracy of OCR
really improved all that much necessarily, only used it for scanning mail
once in awhile, but all in one printers sure scan slower than any scanner
I've used before. I wish I knew where I put the big box that probably had
version 6 in it, but if it's like Jaws or anything else I'll end up with a
new disk when I purchase the upgrade. I hope those are still reasonable
yet.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tanner" <david.tanner...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: A Question Regarding OCR
It is alive and well... Do you have version 12 patch 4? That is the
latest release and there is some support for at least one digital camera
in that patch upgrade.
As far as Kurzweil 1000 on the Mac; the news isn't good. There is
Kurzweil3000 for the Mac, but the folks at Cambian Learning don't think
they can make enough profit on us blind folks so they say they will not
release a version for Apple because if every blind person baught a copy
of Kurzweil1000 for Mac they still couldn't make enough profit to make it
worth it for them to do that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <br...@hostany.net>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: A Question Regarding OCR
Any hope for those of us Kurzweil users? I could live with my old Epson
Perfection scanner, but the new HP all in one takes forever. It's true
that it's quieter by a lot, but it's probably 30 to 45 seconds on the
scanning phase. I hate the mail now more than I ever did, but I don't
have the space nor USB ports for both devices on the desk. If I ever
went back to college, I'd seriously look into a sighted person over what
I have now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 5:30 PM
Subject: A Question Regarding OCR
Hello Everyone,
In addition to being the proud owner of a Focus 40 Blue, I also
obtained
Freedom Scientific's Pearl camera along with OpenBook 9.0.
To put it simply, I am stunned with the OCR performance in both
OpenBook and
the accuracy of the camera along with the dazzling speed of the image
acquisition experience.
I think what blows my mind the most is the motion detection that allows
one
to turn pages and when the new page is in view of the camera, it
automatically takes a photo and begins the OCR process.
I swear it feels as though I have a sighted person reading for me.
I could go on and on but ...
I realize that the pearl has been out for quite some time and am
wondering
if anyone knows if it will work with anything on the Mac.
I know one thing for sure, with the Pearl in my toolbox, I have put my
scanner away for good.
Mark
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