Category: Geeks r Us
Hay guys. hope someone can help. A friend of mine was telling me about something called omnie page. does anyone know anything about it? it's supposed to be very accessible to us blind users. if so, please let me know.
Thanks.
I haven't used Omnipage in several years, but when I did it was not all that accessible. If it's accessibility has improved, that would be great. It is a good product and a lot cheaper than k1000 or openbook.
although, k1000 version ten is very good. But, expensive as you say.
I have played with Omnipage a bit, and did not find it very accessible. You could get buy with it at best. I know that OpenBook and Kurzweil are more expensive, but you're also going to get something that's completely accessible, as opposed to something that is only partially accessible.
I haven't used the latest version of omnipage but the best way I had found to use it was to have it directly scan the material in to word. This worked well. IN later versions the text viewer did read in Jaws. I got annoyed with them when I needed a piece of info from the tech support people and I had to hold for 45 minutes to get a simple registry entry to delete. I gave up on them after that but it's a product worth trying. Also, if you want to go simple and cheep go to www.readingmadeeasy.com and have a look at text cloner pro. I use this on my PC and it does the job for about $100. If you don't have a screen reader and want a self voicing application try the complete reading system from the same sight. Demo's are available. They are great folks, support there products well and the product does what it says it will do. no more and no less.
omneypage was doable, but wasn't my type so switched to openbook. Omneypage would be good fro someone who doesn't have a lot of money. It also comes with a text to speach engine.
Troy
You can set up a workflow in the latest Omnipage to automatically scan your document, recognize it, prompt for a place to save it, then open Word (or another program depending on format) to display the file. That said, I still like Kurzweil.
you can't beat kerzwiel in my view, expencive yes, but you get waht you pay for, and it's the best around, not just for the scanning, but for the other features such as the encyclopidia function etc.
I am personally a Kurzweil fan, but OpenBook is good too. They just have lousy documentation in my opinion.
I love the way k1000 puts its manual as a book, with bookmarks for the table of contents. However, it took me a while to figure this out, and until I did I had a heck of a time looking up anything.
Bob