We seem to have a few specialist ones on the database which may be worth
investigating although as Mervyn mentioned some are beginning to age and
may be hard to purchase.
Aladdin Ambassador reading machine
http://www.niad.sussex.ac.uk/product_details.cfm?ID=1065
Galileo Reading System
http://www.niad.sussex.ac.uk/product_details.cfm?ID=860
Portset Reader
http://www.niad.sussex.ac.uk/product_details.cfm?ID=1069
Pronto Reading Machine (Talking Scanner)
http://www.niad.sussex.ac.uk/product_details.cfm?ID=1076
Reading Edge stand-alone reading machine
http://www.niad.sussex.ac.uk/product_details.cfm?ID=542
Hope this helps a little
Best wishes
E.A.
Mrs E.A.Draffan
TechDis, USIE, EDB,
University of Sussex,
Brighton BN1 9RG
Tel: 01273 873600
http://www.techdis.ac.uk
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 16:42
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Subject: Re: book scannes
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:35:11 -0000, you wrote:
>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.
Hi,
I wonder if there has been any work done with A3 scanners and OCR
software?
Just wondering.
Andrew.
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Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
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