Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-27 Thread Nektarios Mallas
I know. You have to work with the site a little, but the program works well and the results are Nektarios. excellent. On Oct 27, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: > 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 i

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread heather kd5cbl
What about that I powel, I think it was called? I only saw it once a while back at the NFB convention. Heather -- 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 unsubsc

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Eric Oyen
hmmm. I need to find the list of compatible scanners for OS X snow leopard. that and compatible sacs devices (yeah, those may be old, but they still work nice). -Eric On Oct 26, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Ruud Bemelmans wrote: > Hello Sharon, > > I know two people that got a Pearl and sent it back. Li

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Ruud Bemelmans
Hello Sharon, I know two people that got a Pearl and sent it back. Like a flatbed scanner it seems to not like anything that wasn't completely flat and consequently screwed up the OCR proces into unreadable gook. Getting the orientation right for scanning seemed to be another issue for them.

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Sharon: I would say you may not need to invest in Freedom Scientific's Open book for scanning. Your Mac will interface with many scanners, and you can do perfectly well using image capture and a good OCR program such as Abbyy Fine reader. It costs a lot less than Open book, and people are

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Eric Oyen
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 t

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Nektarios Mallas
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 sof

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Ian McNamara
Yep my friend had the same problem when she bought her mac the guy at the shop told her to buy microsoft office for mac odvesly he did not know that it would not be accessable with voice over so luckely me and her spoke to a more experianced mac user before she'd installed it and she was able to

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread heather kd5cbl
Can you still get your money back? If not, sell it on craig's list! Heather -- 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

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread heather kd5cbl
Oh, it works great. You just need to get used to it. I was wondering the same thing, if anyone has experience with keynote. I have to create a presentation for a class next month. Heather -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rafaela Freundt > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:05 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac > > Hi, >

RE: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Brian Miller
Darn. Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rafaela Freundt Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:05 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac Hi, Microsoft Offic

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Hi, Microsoft Office for the mac is not accessible at all. not even the new 2011 one that just came out, so I would advice you to stick with iWork and open Office which is free and is usable. Rafaela El 26/10/2010, a las 20:49, Eric Oyen escribió: > well, > I am not sure about the accessible sca

Re: Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Eric Oyen
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 peop

Advice for purchasing a New IMac

2010-10-26 Thread Sharon Ballantyne
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