New and in need of help.

[Amanda Lee]

The K1000 is alive and well.  Kurzweil is now formed as a separate company
and out from underneath L&H.

We are already working on the next Release and Version of K1000 which will
be Version 6.5 available this summer.

There are no plans for this find product to perish.  None at all!

Amanda Lee
Alexandria, VA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgina" <gena at gena-j.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: New and in need of help.


Hi

I'm not sure about the politics of what has happened but I think that L & H
have gone under or they've just pushed Kurzweil out.  But whatever is the
case can you really imagine that Stephen would stop selling his front end
for a thousand dollars to giving it away?  What do you think those who
have paid for it will say about it?  We saw what happened recently
when someone was selling K1000 V6 for $25 or however how much it was,
the current users went crazy.

I was lucky in that my local authority purchased my copy for me.
Gena



>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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