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[Georgina]

Hi

I think that you will find that your scanner will do the job nicely.  If it 
can scan at 300 dots per inch (DPI) then all you need is the software.  I'd 
suggest that people also purchased the stand-alone Fine Reader OCR software.  
It is cheaper and more accurate and is what makes k1000 andobr the products 
they are.

See http://www.abbeyy.com


Gena



>On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Amanda Lee wrote:
>
>> Still, if one has made an investment in one of these fine products which
>> are indeed designed for persons who are blind but also are way above
>> standard in terms of how they produce translation from print to text, as
>> long as that product is reliable and works well for the individual, ther
>> is no need really to dump one for the other as they are comparable in
>> quality.
>
>I quite agree, each to his/her own.
>
>For me, I use Omnipage, which came with my scanner.  Ok, it is not perfect
>and I do not use it for heavy scanning, but it does a nice job on my mail,
>some of which is hand-written and/or on coloured paper.  I'm using a
>relatively old version, 9.0, but it work fine for me.
>Btw, I only paid #60 GB (about $75) for my scanner.
>I suspect it wouldn't scan books too well, though I am going to try it
>because it may come in useful elsewhere for me.
>
>Cheers.
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