Bob, Several years ago I had my wife take a picture of a magazine 
page of text with her digital camera.  I took the SD card, found 
the picture on it and stored to my computer.  I changed the file 
extension to whatever the Kurzweil needed and scanned the file 
using Kurzweil.  It opened and read the text quite accurately.  
Pretty tedious way to get information, but as an experiment I 
thought it was cool.  Jim WA6EKS

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From: Bob Ray <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:47:05 -0500
Subject: (o.t.) Uisng K1000

The K 1000 in this case is Kurzweil 1000.  In their manual they 
say that
you may use a scanner or a camera for inputting data.  Has anyone 
tried the
camera
approach? It certainly works well with KNFB Reader but how about 
K 1000?

Bob KD0BR
eirzw

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From: For blind ham radio operators 
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On Behalf Of Jim Gammon
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 10:48 PM
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Subject: Audible rotor direction indicator

I don't think I have commented on this thread, but back in 1975, 
I had a
HamAm rotor that turned my HighGain TH6DXX 6 element beam.  There 
was no way
for a blind person to know the direction the antenna was pointing 
because
the rotor meter was of course under glass and probably had a very 
small
needle.  A friend at the time, built a small device, seems it was 
a voltage
controled oscillator with a pointer knob on top that rotated 
freely 360
degrees.  I would set the pointer in the direction I wanted to 
point the
beam and hit the keys on the rotor.  When the tone in the speaker 
inside the
attached box nulled out, I knew I was pointing northwest or where 
ever I
needed to point.  I am not aware of any similar audible rotor 
indicators out
there today.
Jim WA6EKS