New and in need of help.

[Chris Peterson]

Just a not here.

I have a friend who graduated from school who graduated last year and took a
job with L and H.  He is working with a team that is working on porting
Kurtzweil scanning and reading products to Linux.

So, don't bash them just yet.

I haven't talked to him since he took the job, so I don't know the status of
the project, but perhaps something good will come of it eventually.

73,
Chris Peterson, KG0BP



----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgina" <gena at gena-j.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: New and in need of help.


> Hi
>
> No thanks, I got a lovely set up here of the Epson 1240 and K1000 6.02
> with Dectalk.  I again will try to bring you round to the discussion that
> started this discussion.  John wrote that TWAIN scanners will not
deffinately
> work on the GNU/Linux platform.  The fact that your a beta tester for the
> most exploitative front end for the rtk and fine reader ocr engines has
> nothing to do with it.  It is because of such software that demonstrates
> the need for the time and investment into the GNU/Linux community.
>
> Gena
>
>
>
> >Okay then be my guest and go out and buy yourself a cheap, off-the-shelf
> >scanner that nobody has ever heard of.  I can betya! that it is not
likely
> >to operate in Twain mode very well if at all.
> >
> >I am a beta tester for the K1000 product and we discuss these things with
> >developers who test various scanners as a part of their job.  They know
what
> >they are talking about.
> >
> >Amanda Lee
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Georgina" <gena at gena-j.net>
> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 1:32 PM
> >Subject: Re: New and in need of help.
> >
> >
> >Hi
> >
> >I stand by what I said!  "almost"  I had to challange the misleading
> >post about scanner support under GNU/Linux.
> >
> >
> >Gena
> >
> >
> >
> >>Nope, not all scanners are Twain compatible in fact for awhile, HP had
> >>broken Twain and they don't support it as well in some of their series.
> >>Other brainds are even worse.
> >>
> >>Amanda Lee
> >>
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Georgina" <gena at gena-j.net>
> >>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >>Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 10:36 AM
> >>Subject: Re: New and in need of help.
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>Do TWAIN make scanners?  I thought that TWAIN was an interface.  almost
> >>every scanner is TWAIN compliant and when installed under Windows uses a
> >>TWAIN interface but the same scanner will work under GNU/Linux with the
> >>"Scanner Access Now Easy".  You can see the list of supported scanners
on
> >>the SANE www site.
> >>
> >>Sorry, can't remember what TWAIN stands for but it is another acronym.
> >>
> >>Gena
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>If you are going to any significant scanning, you should have
> >>>Windblows available -- from what I can tell, Linux ocr is not there
> >>>yet and I understand they definitely don't support twain scanners.
> >>>
> >>>on Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:48:51 -0500 "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net>
wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi, Anna. If you email me off list I'll help you get a Linux box
going.
> >>>> My email address is
> >>>> tward at bright.net
> >>>>
> >>>> Some initial questions here.
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you have a hardware synth?
> >>>> Do you plan to buy one if not?
> >>>> If you plan to scan books do you have a scsi scanner?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>         John Covici
> >>>         covici at ccs.covici.com
> >>>
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