Hi Harvey!

It isn't about what you can see. Alignment by touch should be easy enough.

Are you getting anything at all with your scan?

If the document print is of poor quality, that will have a negative empact,
although I haven't had too much of that unless I'm getting a bunch of
jibberish.

One caution that I didn't know about for a long time. If you should get
reasonably good results, ou'll easill impress another blind person if you
share the results with them. However your satisfaction won't live long if
you try to show those great results with a sighted person. *lol*

My wife and I scanned all kinds of things over a period of years and shared
it as reasonably as any couple would, not knowing that there was any access
issues with the results we were getting. We just happened to send something
one of us had found interesting to a sighted friend, and they insisted the
page was blank even though Jaws read the results near letter perfect. That's
a different kind of eye opener.

I generally set it up so that scanned documents are saved as Word by
default, but these days, that doesn't mean as much as it used to when you
want to produce the equal document in braille.

I'll be very surprised if there is an Open Book 10.  


Even though you have everything looking correct, choosing a different device
driver may helt.

Good luck whatever happens.

73,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Harvey Heagy
Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2015 10:35 p.m.
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Subject: FW: OT Pearl question

Hi Dave.  As far as I know, I am lining the page up with the page guide,
although I am not absolutely sure about that.  I can't see much light, so I
usually don't open curtains or turn out any lights when I am by myself.
Freedom Scientific kept insisting that I didn't have it set up right, but I
don't know how else I can set it up, and the person I got that time wasn't
much help, but thanks for the suggestions.
Harvey

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Dave Allen
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 4:28 AM
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Subject: Re: OT Pearl question

Hi Harvey!

A couple things I can say here.

Remember they mainly expect most things to be on standard 8.5x11 pages. If
that ain't what you've got, you shouldn't expect good results.

Did you follow the instructions about aligning the page with the guide on
the Pearl stand?

If you've done all that, and the light makes no difference, there's probably
little else you can do, although I have have marginally more success when
making other lighting adjustments unrelated directly to the Pearl that may
be having an empact. Even if the windows are fairly distant from you, the
in-coming light may be harming your results, so closing curtins may help.

I now have little use for Open Book, but I do appreciate that some still
have to depend on it because it may be all they have.

73,
Dave