Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-23 Thread Michael Busboom
Thank you very much, Erik, for this information. While you mentioned the ability to scan text and save it as an MP3 file, I really need to have it saved as an RTF or some other kind of text file. Is this possible? Best regards and thanks once again, Mike On 22,Jan,2011, at 7:39 PM, erik

Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-23 Thread Dane Trethowan
I haven't tried it yet as I don't know where to get it but I believe that Abbey Fine reader Express is accessible for the Mac? Probably worth trying that before wasting money on any offerings from Humanware. On 23/01/2011, at 11:46 PM, Michael Busboom wrote: Thank you very much, Erik, for

Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-23 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, yes it is. it can go text for sure and I think office 2007 as well. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-01-23, at 7:46 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: Thank you very much, Erik,

Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-23 Thread Carolyn
Product for the Mac? Humanware is reselling the EyePal from ABISee. I have one here to demo to clients and plan to add it to my training equipment. On the videos EyePal seems to be instantaneous. It's not. They obviously did some serious editing on those promos. I'd say it's between 10

Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-22 Thread Michael Busboom
Hi. Several months ago, when Humanware's European marketing manager visited me here in Vienna, he told me that the company would soon be introducing an OCR product that would work with the Mac. The user would purchase a tripod/camera that would connect to the Mac through the USB port and

Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-22 Thread erik burggraaf
Humanware is reselling the EyePal from ABISee. I have one here to demo to clients and plan to add it to my training equipment. On the videos EyePal seems to be instantaneous. It's not. They obviously did some serious editing on those promos. I'd say it's between 10 and 15 seconds per

Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-22 Thread Dane Trethowan
Good for Humanware if they're really going to do something like that but I'm not too sure I'd buy one of their products given what's happened with the Victor Reader stream, yep a great product when it came out but now? Well its slipped behind the times due to lack of development, other products

Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-22 Thread Scott Granados
Or the blackberry products?:) Can anyone think of a product that Humanware managed well? On Jan 22, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Good for Humanware if they're really going to do something like that but I'm not too sure I'd buy one of their products given what's happened with the

Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-22 Thread erik burggraaf
They did rebadge a lot of baum hardware which was a brilliant move from my perspective. At least, I don't like to think what a braille display in the mould of the victor or trekker lines would look like. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at

Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-22 Thread Scott Granados
As a trainor and someone whith his hands on the gear all the time who has the best products right now? Is off the shelf the way to go from your viewpoint or is the specific blind related products superior? On Jan 22, 2011, at 1:16 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: They did rebadge a lot of baum

off the shelf vs custom was Re: Humanware OCR Product for the Mac?

2011-01-22 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Scott, I think you would have to be numb not to be getting excited about off the shelf products right now. There's the Iphone/ITouch, apple computers, developments in Android, rockbox MP3 players, and new stuff coming every day, especially in terms of enhancements to what we've already