We have a VI student who uses Kurzweil and it has a DAISY converter. We've lent
her a Victor Stream which she was very taken with so she can scan books and
then convert them to text and DAISY and carry them around with her.
Best,
Ruth
> 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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Disability Librarian
Accessible Resources Acquisition and Creation Unit (ARACU)
Osney One Building, Osney Mead
(2)83861
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