# Kurzweil 1000 vs. Open Book

Category: accessible Devices

## Post 1 by Miss Gorgeous (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 07-Aug-2009 11:00:28

Which is better?

## Post 2 by motifated (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 08-Aug-2009 17:33:05

Personally, I like Kurzweil better. I understand the Open book is faster, and the documentation is shorter to read. When I had the opportunity to compare comparable versions of both products, I thought that Kurzweil was better in terms of recognition of text. In all fairness though, I haven't played with Open Book for awhile. You might look at products like the IPal or Solo, as they work completely different. The used a fixed camera, and no moving parts.
Lou

## Post 3 by Damia (I'm oppinionated deal with it.) on Saturday, 08-Aug-2009 19:03:00

it's really an oppinion and based on what you want the program for.

## Post 4 by season (the invisible soul) on Saturday, 08-Aug-2009 22:35:15

personally, i like Kurzweil. absolutely agree oon poster 2. but its depends on what you want and how much you want to pay. not too sure if there's big different in prize, but, i would say, go for Kurzweil. its worth every cens

## Post 5 by monkeypusher69 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Sunday, 09-Aug-2009 16:13:00

i have open book and while it gets the job done with scanning text and the like i find kurzweil retains the formatting with images of whatever you scan and then will read the text around it.

## Post 6 by SFAIdol (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Sunday, 09-Aug-2009 16:41:31

Personally, I like kurzweil better. I had the chance to compare them a few years ago, and I liked how kurzweil would tell me how much of whatever I am scanning is recognized. However, I do not remember other ways I liked kurzweil over open book.

## Post 7 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2009 2:56:26

Other than braille display support, Openbook doesn't have much on Kurzweil in terms of usefulness. You can search more sites for books, get better and faster text recognition with default settings, and a lot more with k1000. Granted, Openbook can be modified to do the same stuff, but why bother doing that when the price is the same, and the makers of Openbook are su happy? In fact, Openbook and k1000 use the same exact OCR engines, it just seems like k1000 has set them up to work better.

## Post 8 by season (the invisible soul) on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2009 6:35:17

k1000 allows you to have neo speach kate and paul and openbook doesn't. further more, i like all the fitures that is in k1000, it tell you how accurate exactly when you scanning a page, and sometime it make a different when you know the accuracy and when you not. and more, k1000 not own by the very famous freedom bunch of scientific company, can't complain much really.

## Post 9 by Siriusly Severus (The ESTJ 1w9 3w4 6w7 The Taskmaste) on Sunday, 11-Oct-2009 4:15:42

A question I asked as well. From the answer I got, Kurzweil by far. It has a lot more features and beats Open book by a long shot in quality.

## Post 10 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Sunday, 11-Oct-2009 9:29:46

I'd say Kurzweil as well. I also like the fact that the screen isn't blindingly white when you open it up like open books is.

## Post 11 by Siriusly Severus (The ESTJ 1w9 3w4 6w7 The Taskmaste) on Sunday, 11-Oct-2009 10:57:29

That too then, that's a good point.