Hi Dane,
As long as Ihad something which I could scan a book into the computer accurately, get it recognized, and do what needed done, yes, I wouldn't see any problems with using an off the shelf product, as long as it worked with vo. I just use the book mark features, for example that are in k1000 whilest studying, for example, for marking important bits of text so I can find them later on and obviously want something similar or close and I just don't know what's out there. It seems like the I work package comes close to what I have with office, if not better, as long as it works with vo(apple says it does), so the only thing that is holding me off from taking the apple plunge all the way is this k1000 thing. The kurzweil people said we could upgrade to the 3000 version which is made for the mac, but they forgot to tell my husband and me that it doesn't talk! We don't know if it works with vo, but the upgrade would not cost us that much, if we did it that way, since we already own k1000 v. 12.something. Cait From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:17 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: scanning and the mac Would you be prepared to consider an off the shelf scanning system for your Mac? Meaning something like Abey Fine Reader? No, its not self voicing but you can get around it with Voiceover so some knowledge of how Voiceover works will be a must before you use it but that will come anyway if you plan to use Voiceover with your Mac <smile>. Running a dual boot system or a virtual machine just to run Kurzweil seems to be going to one hell of a lot of trouble to me <smile>, I know where you're coming from with Kurzweil though as I've used it here on my Windows PC and no one can deny its a great package - even though its massively overpriced in my humble opinion - but as I said before, you a little knowledge of Voicoever will go a long way and save you a lot of time. On 17/02/2011 3:11 AM, Caitlyn and Nickels wrote: > Hi, > > We have been kicking around the idea of getting a couple of new macs for a > couple of weeks now since bothour pc's are not working that great anymore. > The main thing that is holding us back is our heavy reliance on Kurzweil. I > am a grad student and we also use k1000 for scanning our mail daily. I know > we could either do a duel boot system or run a virtual machine and then can > use k1000 this way on the mac, but I wanted to ask knowledgable folks first > about this before we jumped in. > > We heard about another kurzweil product that is for the mac, but it's not > self voicing, and I don't know if vo works with it. Does anybody have any > mac specific solutions that work well for scanning text books? For scanning > the types we all get in the post? I use the bookmark features in k1000 > quite a lot, plus the dictionary a lot and have preferred it a lot for the > proof reading I do for book share over ms word. > > Oh, that's actually another question, we were told that pages actually isn't > that great or useable... > > Lots of this info is coming from people who don't use vo regularly. > > For us, though, this scanner stuff is the only thing standing in the way. > We do have a old power book, but it's the old non intel mac, so we're stuck > running leopard on it, can't do a virtual machine or anything on it, it > doesn't support the magic track pad, and we can't upgrade to snow leopard or > anything beyond what we already have on it(we already called apple about > it). > > Any help or anything would be appreciated! > > Thanks, > Caitlyn > > -- 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. _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3447 - Release Date: 02/16/11 -- 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.
