If you are reading this message, you don't need that device. If you already have a PC, there are several OCR solutions available for less than $1000. These stand alone systems do have a niche, and it's usually folks such as seniors who have lost vision, and need to have things read, but are not interested in using a PC. With all of this technology, the price ends up being the kicker, but many seniors have savings earned through their working life, or children who can afford to help mom or dad maintain a higher level of independence. Andy
-----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:42 AM To: Sandra Fouts; 'Butch K'; [email protected] Subject: Re: the reading easy price Guess, this product is a great one. At least, if you happened to be born and reside the right side of the border. Smile. Unfortunately, we too often see things like this. A great product, offering a solution to ever so many. And, then? the price! I don't know, but by the time a user has added on one or two of those extras, what is he left with for a price? At least to me, I wonder how many a document, or screenshot or whatever, would I need to have read aloud to me; before I could rectify paying that much money. Wonder, how many people would have agreed to go to their optician, and be told they have to spend 2500 dollars on their reading glasses. Another question, that came up in my mind, as I was reading this - is how big the unit is. Or, how heavy. Wea are already loaded with a ton of electronic gadgets - cell phones, gps, notetakers, daisy players, and who knows what else - that we "Just Need Carry Around", only to make us perform the smallest task in our daily life. Sure, this is a great thing, that product. For those who can afford the price and the extra unit (or units, with whatever additionals they buy). But for the plain, normal people? At the end of it all, exactly what can it read? Will it only read a normal page, or could you actually read a book (where the page often would bend slightly toward the middle of the volume - a scenario that has caused quite challenging situations for many an user of OCR and scanners). Can you have it read the text on a pack of grocery, like on your cereal pack? How easy is it to use for 'everyone'? I.e, will you need some kind of training in focusing the object to be read. The message you Aaron posted, did give little and no answers to most of these questions; although, they would be quite relevant for anyone who would be considering buying that new unit. Give us some everyday examples, where this actually would be worth that amount of money, and if it is not already there, let's have an audio example of how human sounding it is. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Fouts" <[email protected]> To: "'Butch K'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:20 PM Subject: RE: the reading easy price I thought it was something like that. To much for me. -----Original Message----- From: Butch K [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: the reading easy price Hi, the price on the GW catalog web page for read easy is $2495 Butch If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
