Pleasantly surprised by the nook iphone app

2013-03-13 Thread Travis Siegel
Well, after downloading the nook app, (because a book I wanted to download on the web site wouldn't allow it) I installed it, and was pleasantly surprised to be offered a summary of vo gestures if I wanted them. I opened a drm protected ebook (one I'd bought several years ago and never did

Re: OCR with Prizmo on iPhone using StandScan Pro

2013-03-13 Thread Glenn
I think a steady picture makes a lot of difference. I have had best results if I hold the iPhone with both hands, and my elbows resting on the table. Glenn - Original Message - From: "Anne Robertson" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 5:17 PM Subject: OCR

media remote

2013-03-13 Thread Travis Siegel
Hello folks. I found an app in the app store for ios called media remote. I didn't have a supported device, since it's a sony product, but a quick trip to goodwill took care of that little problem. I picked up a blue ray player for 46 bucks, and hooked it to my network at home. It took

RE: Digital camera systems for scanning [was Re: Moutain Lion andEyePal]

2013-03-13 Thread David Griffith
I agree Multipage scanning is a must. I wonder if the Hovercam would interface with vue Scan? The other possible option is if the Hovercam could create a folder of Jpgs then a more efficient use of finereader may be possible. This essentially what I do with EyePal books. These are just folders of

OCR with Prizmo on iPhone using StandScan Pro

2013-03-13 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, Last week, I received my StandScan Pro, a kind of fold-away box with interior lighting, designed to be used with smart phones. Here are the results of two scans, one done using the mains adaptor, and the other using the portable battery pack. The scans are double pages from a b

Re: Digital camera systems for scanning [was Re: Moutain Lion and EyePal]

2013-03-13 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi again, Just to save people some time I've taken a listen to that podcast and here are some observations: 1. the paper must be carefully lined up with tactile markings on a supplied paper mat. The demonstrator comments that if the page is crooked, then scan quality degrades. 2. This one is

Re: Digital camera systems for scanning [was Re: Moutain Lion and EyePal]

2013-03-13 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Esther, I would tend to agree with your reservations about abandoning flatbeds or other, may I say, more traditional scanning solutions. What I wonder is if one could get a fairly high-quality webcam, and if one knew someone to make even a wooden frame, I suspect one could put a similar sys

Re: Bento busy?

2013-03-13 Thread Sarah Alawami
Do the devs know about this? I don't use the program as I dont' need to any data base work, how ever I think it woudl be a good idea to contact the devs about this as I know some other list members use bento on their macs. Take care and good luck. On Mar 13, 2013, at 7:33, Bryan Jones wrote:

Re: voice on fate fly

2013-03-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
No I don't think you can doctually I think you can do this. go under speech and set up an activity for safari. In there you can set up default and content voice and so forth. Take care. On Mar 13, 2013, at 4:05 AM, William Lomas wrote: > hi to all, i guess i can not on the fly, change the con

Re: Bento busy?

2013-03-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Zack, I think Bento is not compatible with VO under Mountain Lion. I haven't found a workaround. Bryan On Mar 12, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > I recently purchased the Bento personal database program from FileMaker, and > have been somewhat frustrated. My version came from the M

RE: Moutain Lion and EyePal

2013-03-13 Thread David Griffith
Eyepal is getting quite old now. At least mine is. When I got it the Eyepal was pretty much the only portable digital scanning solution available. Nowadays there are lots more choice. I started out using Eyepal on a PC and transferred it to my Imac when I got that. If I was starting out now I wo

Re: Moutain Lion and EyePal

2013-03-13 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Kate, I'm only getting started with these tools myself Anne Robertson is probably one of the list experts on this and will know better. The answer is that you can scan and recognise with ABYY but it's slow. What a lot of us (I think it's not just me) do is if we have a lot to scan, we just

Re: Moutain Lion and EyePal

2013-03-13 Thread cait furness
I couldn't see the results of the scan. I suspect that I didn't quite understand what I needed to do to get that to happen. Can you both scan and recognize with abby? or do I need both programs for this? I thought I had to scan with vu scan and then use abby to recognize the scan. It's been

Re: Moutain Lion and EyePal

2013-03-13 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Those two programs are all mac. What issues did you have? You're essentially spending 2K on a webcam that talks to (in my view anyway) only very average software. Interestingly, the mac version isn't even a genuine mac program it runs under WINE which needs X11. On 13 Mar 2013, at 11:01, cait

voice on fate fly

2013-03-13 Thread William Lomas
hi to all, i guess i can not on the fly, change the content voice i am using to read websites? only the default voice which i assume is my system voice in mountain lion? regards will <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-a

Re: Moutain Lion and EyePal

2013-03-13 Thread cait furness
Hmmm, ok. I am used to kurzweil. I had a go with abby and vu scan and couldn't get them to work and would just like an all mac solution. Perhaps I'll give abby and vu scan another shot or just stick with running a virtual machine then. Thanks for the tips. Cait On 2013-03-13, at 6:53 AM, Dón

Re: Moutain Lion and EyePal

2013-03-13 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi there, At over 2000 euro? not a chance. I only use it because the university for which I work had it lying around and I borrowed it until a student comes in and gets it back. I would honestly say to spend a couple of hundred of whatever currency you operate in, and buy a decent scanner, Vu

Re: Moutain Lion and EyePal

2013-03-13 Thread cait furness
Besides this weirdness, would you say that i pal is worth the purchase? Curiously, Caitlyn, who is thinking of getting it later this year On 2013-03-12, at 7:57 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi David, > > Oops my apologies I thought I had followed up with the list on this one. > > I did some