Hi Evelyn,
I suspect what you ideally need is a "Book Edge Scanner" of the type used by Kurzweil at one time. This allows you to place a book onto the scanner in such a way that a) it is barely open more than 100 degrees, and b) will scan much closer into the spine of the book than conventional scanners.
However, who is making them these days, if at all, is the $64,000 question.
George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
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> Dear all,
> Does anyone have information on Book Scanners for a blind
> (with very limited vision)
> researcher?
> Most of his data comes in book form because of the nature of
> the subject; he has just
> discovered screen reading software makes his reading ten
> times faster and much easier and would
> like to be able to import documents in Word or text format.
> We have looked on the Net and all
> we found were huge, very expensive flat beds with what appear
> to be overhead cameras. A CCTV
> system a flatbed book reader system was also suggestedand has
> been suggested but as he is
> limited for space may not be ideal.
> Also recommendations for good screen readers other than JAWS,
> which will work with Windows (NT
> ot 2000) - he's using a free and not very good one at present.
> Many thanks.
> Evelyn Toseland
>
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> Evelyn Toseland
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