Maria, you have a couple of choices that I'm aware of and I imagine someone will come up with others as well. As rated by several organizations serving the blind, the most compatible scanner for use with programs like Open book and Kurzweil is hewlett Packard. These days, they make multiplex devices which scan, copy and fax, all at the same time. However, they still do market stand alone scanners at approximately $140. Several other companies make excellent scanners like Cannon and even Lexmark but you have to be careful since some of them are not supported by those programs. There is one scanner manufacterer that I can strongly recommend against. Recently, Linda bought me an Epson scanner. I thought that I would just be able to hook it up and it would work like my old HP did. Wrong! I was never able to get it working at all, using Open Book. I finally had to return it. That was very upsetting to Linda, naturally. She's my wife by the way. Freedom Scientific has a list of supported scanners on their site, in the section dealing with Open Book. But I would steer clear of Epson. Heaven only knows why and probably someone on this list has made an Epson scanner work. But I just don't have the time or the patience to fool around. Epson scanners are excellent in all other respects. It's a shame they didn't work for me.
John JOHN AND LINDA JUSTICE WITH GUIDE DOGS JAKE AND ZACHARY PERSONAL E-MAIL: john_just...@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Maria Campbell Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:40 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] Looking for a scanner My old Microtek scanner died, and I'm looking for a replacement. I'm using Kurzweil as my scanning program. What would be a good scanner to use these days? Thanks. Sunny Day Maria Campbell lucky1i...@sbcglobal.net When the power of love is stronger than the love of power, then the world will know peace. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
