Forgot to put the name of the program I talked about. It is from Abisee at 
abisee.com. They had it working on a Macbook Pro. 
Eugenia Firth
gigifi...@sbcglobal.net



On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:

> Hi guys. 
> I wanted to tell y'all about the scanning program that I saw at the exhibits 
> at NFB today. True, it costs $1200, but it comes with a camera sort of like 
> the Purl camera. 
> 
> I had to get it going for them because the guy that knew about it wasn't at 
> the table at the time I showed up. He came right after I got it going. It 
> wouldn't talk at first. Who knows where it was on the screen. Like OpenBook, 
> you don't use the screen reader while it's running. However, I had to turn 
> their VoiceOver on, press command q and get out of their program, and then 
> call it back up again, after I turned off their track pad. The person that 
> was sitting there keeping watch while the developer was gone for a little 
> bit, I guess was a Windows user. Anyway, I got the program going. 
> 
> The developer that came back was very knowledgeable. He told me they had a 
> former Kurzweil engineer with them. When I did the scan, it reading was 
> incredibly good, even in the light my husband said was glaring on the paper. 
> 
> I have a Purl camera I am considering selling. It doesn't have much use on 
> it, and maybe I ought to sell OpenBook while I'm at it. However, I don't know 
> if I can. The state gave me OpenBook, but I bought the Purl camera myself. 
> I'll have to find out what I can do about OpenBook. 
> 
> Eugenia Firth
> gigifi...@sbcglobal.net
> 
> 
> 
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