Dolphin have software called The EasyConverter which you might find
helpful. Checkout their website for further information. Hope this
helps.
Kim
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips
Sent: 28 March 2008 10:48
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Subject: Daisybooks and scanning text - advice needed. {OCVC Scanned}
I have recently assessed a student who has partial vision and as such
needs to make most of her
research material accessible for VI . Her sight is still deteriorating
and she will probably lose
her sight completely in the future. Currently she uses a screen reader
to assist with reading text
but still prefers to use her remaining vision to read whenever possible.
In order for her to read
text she needs to increase fonts to at least 20 pts. Screen readers
work but she becomes frustrated
with the voice reading menus and extraneous text and finds it difficult
to navigate large documents
and books.
I suggested using a daisy reader as the text can be easily reformatted
to a larger font and has
more navigable text to speech. The problem I have is that she scans
most of her reading as the text
she uses is not available in daisy format. When scanning formatted text
( text with chapter, page,
sub headings etc) the hierarchical structure is lost which in turn means
that the document becomes
less navigable when converted to Daisy format. Does anyone have any
suggestions for OCR software
which works well for conversion to Daisy format (ie maintains the
document hierarchy)??
Many Thanks,
Mark
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