I don't have an article or post but I have the scann-ar and have had it for 15 months now and it is truly a marvelous little machine. No drivers to contend with, No hastles about whether you have enough memory on that computer, just turn it on by itself, push the triangular button with the point going to the right with your document in the scanning bed and wait about a minute and scann-ar will read it in a nice crisp clear voice. I have some issues that hopefully might be thought about for a future upgrade. If, you have scanned300 pages of a 500 page book and mess page 301 up, you can't just erase that page, you either have to go on and rescan the page or erase the whole thing and start over. That is really my only complaint about it. It would be absolutely perfect in a resource room when outclass teacher assigns a blind student to read such and such a book and he/she could do this by himself while braille teacher is working with other students on say math or computer skills. Also this machine is so darned easy that it would be ideal for a Senior facility where say a group of people may have lost their sight and they felt they were not up for learning computer skills. If you can operate a cassette recorder you can operate this machine. I am totally amazed that Pulse Data has not pushed this machine more because it does have a market in many areas. I had had a Hp 5200 scuzzy scanner and Open Book was what had totally ruined my desktop which put it in an early grave, so when I bought this IBm, I needed a usb scanner so after talking with my financial adviser I had told him I had seen the scann-arat csun and "some day, was going to buy one." He said, "well you need a new scanner so why not make that some day now?" So I bought it and have never regretted my choice for one second. Its just so nice when you can't sleep, to turn one thing on and read without a noisy scanner buzzing (My hp 5200 was extremely noisy.) Incidentally, this is a fast scanner it will scan a page and process it in about 30 seconds to a minute whereas it took the Hp about 2 to 3 minutes to process that same page. What else can I tell you? Its just a fabulous dynomite little machine.
Mary Ellen Earls Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:40 PM Subject: [Braillenote] About that scanner: > I had the impression based on discussions here that Pulsedata had produced a new scanner, and I thought it could work with Braille note and voice note, too. Was I mistaken? Does anyone have an article or post about it? > > > Brenda Mueller > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >
