Open book on the Mac? Forget it. This here sounds like it might be worth serious consideration. thanks.
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Jul 2, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
