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Jeffrey Schwartz
For the member who told me it was now one fifty, I just called vfo and it is now one thousand Things are really changing at vfo. Jeff
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Carlos
LOL I seriously doubt OpenBook was ever
$150.
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george b <gbmagoo@...>
It was originally many years ago a price of 1500.00 Thus the price has came down so how about that
From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of Carlos
Sent: September 12, 2017 12:44 To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] cost of open book
LOL I seriously doubt OpenBook was ever $150.
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Gerald Levy
Jeff, $1000 is the cost of Open Book if you are purchasing it for the first
time. But if you purchased it in the past and have the serial number, the
cost to upgrade it is only $300. When I upgraded from Open Book 7 to Open
Book 9, that’s what VFO charged me.
Gerald
From: Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:41 PM
Subject: [TechTalk] cost of open book For the member who told me it was now one fifty, I just called vfo and it is now one thousand Things are really changing at vfo. Jeff
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Blackwell, Clifford
The $150 price is an upgrade price from an earlier version.
From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io]
On Behalf Of Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 2:41 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: [TechTalk] cost of open book
For the member who told me it was now one fifty, I just called vfo and it is now one thousand Things are really changing at vfo. Jeff
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Gerald Levy
If you don’t want to spend $1000 to purchase a new copy of Open Book,
another text to speech program you might want to consider is DocuScan Plus from
Serotek, which only costs $400. Keep in mind that DocuScan Plus is not as
feature rich as Open Book, but it might well suffice for your needs if all you
want to do is read simple documents. Also keep in mind that Serotek is on
shaky ground these days, having recently lost its chief programmer, and so its
future is uncertain. For more info about DocuScan Plus:
Gerald
From: Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:41 PM
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Jeffrey Schwartz
I think I’ll wait for the new version of Jaws. They claim that they can do ocr from a scanner or camera. Jeff
From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:52 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] cost of open book
Jeff, $1000 is the cost of Open Book if you are purchasing it for the first time. But if you purchased it in the past and have the serial number, the cost to upgrade it is only $300. When I upgraded from Open Book 7 to Open Book 9, that’s what VFO charged me.
Gerald
From: Jeffrey Schwartz Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:41 PM Subject: [TechTalk] cost of open book
For the member who told me it was now one fifty, I just called vfo and it is now one thousand Things are really changing at vfo. Jeff
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Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@...>
I'll just use my phone with knfb reader to scan stuff. much more
affordable.
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Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@...>
or for $250 you could get a moto e 4th gen plus smartPhone, plus
knfb reader. then scan your stuff and save to dropbox to sink to
the computer.
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Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@...>
knfb reader with my phone works good. But I plan on getting a new
phone nex year with a better camera maybe a 12mp or 13mp camera.
It may give better OCR results. the moto e 4th gen plus with
android 7.1 or maybe a moto g latest gen phone I think will due
fine for me. with all the books out on the blio accessible ebooks
website, bookshare and nls bard I don't do a whole lot of scanning
these days.
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Pamela Dominguez
That’s still expensive for an upgrade. The cost of upgrading kuezweil
is $125, if my memory serves; and you don’t have to pay more if you miss
upgrades. Pam.
From: Gerald Levy
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] cost of open book Jeff, $1000 is the cost of Open Book if you are purchasing it for the first
time. But if you purchased it in the past and have the serial number, the
cost to upgrade it is only $300. When I upgraded from Open Book 7 to Open
Book 9, that’s what VFO charged me.
Gerald
From: Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:41 PM
Subject: [TechTalk] cost of open book For the member who told me it was now one fifty, I just called vfo and it is now one thousand Things are really changing at vfo. Jeff
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Dennis L <dennisl1982@...>
The new version of Jaws looks great.
From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 4:06 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] cost of open book
I think I’ll wait for the new version of Jaws. They claim that they can do ocr from a scanner or camera. Jeff
From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy
Jeff, $1000 is the cost of Open Book if you are purchasing it for the first time. But if you purchased it in the past and have the serial number, the cost to upgrade it is only $300. When I upgraded from Open Book 7 to Open Book 9, that’s what VFO charged me.
Gerald
From: Jeffrey Schwartz Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:41 PM Subject: [TechTalk] cost of open book
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Pamela Dominguez
I don’t find that scanning stuff with my phone works well, most of the
time. Pam.
From: Josh Kennedy
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] cost of open book or for $250 you could get a moto e 4th gen plus smartPhone, plus knfb reader.
then scan your stuff and save to dropbox to sink to the computer.
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Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@...>
I get very good scanned results with my phone. I position the
camera until I get a nearly perfect field of view report then take
the picture.
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Carlos
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Are you using KNFB Reader? If not,
that will make a huge difference. KNFB Reader is almost considered
the gold standard when scanning with a smart phone these days.
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Pamela Dominguez
Yes; that’s what I have. I don’t have a smart phone; I have the n95,
but it has the KNFB mobile reader. That’s why I bought it.
Otherwise, I would have a much simpler phone. Pam.
Are you using KNFB Reader? If not, that will
make a huge difference. KNFB Reader is almost considered the gold standard
when scanning with a smart phone these days.
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Carlos
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Part of the problem may also be your camera.
Feature phones often have less advanced/lower quality cameras than the ones
included in most smart phones.
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Jeffrey Schwartz
I had the first KNFBdevice when I was working. I found it to be virtually useless, even for scanning currency. At that time it cost over two thousand bucks. I think that Kurzweil is a pioneer. He invented the first scanner/ocr It was the size of a washing machine and was only found in libraries, but he was the only one to conceptualize such a device for the blind and make one. Jeff
From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of Carlos
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 5:02 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] cost of open book
Are you using KNFB Reader? If not, that will make a huge difference. KNFB Reader is almost considered the gold standard when scanning with a smart phone these days.
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Carlos
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I remember being one of the first to be trained
on that huge Kurzweil reading machine when we got one at the public
library.
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Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982@...>
I had one of the older nokia n86 phones with knfb on it. got it
off ebay for maybe $200 or so. That was a good many years ago. I
never could get very good results with it either. For some reason
the android phones and iPhones seem to work lots better with knfb
reader.
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