Hello Ray and other interested parties:

The accessible world web site has a review of the Omni Page O C R in the 
form of a podcast. If you care to give a listen it is at the following link:

http://accessibleworld.org/show.php?contentid=43



Look for :

Achieving New Levels of Productivity with OmniPage OCR Scanning Software: 
Monday 30 Oct 2006



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Pietruk" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] An Interesting Question to Ponder


: Ray
:
: This is a good question; and before purchasing K1000 (it's one of the
: best adaptive equipment purchases I ever made), I wondered much the same
: thing.
:
: First of all, you get what you pay for.  There is no free lunch.
:
: K1000, and the same goes for open Book, is far more than just an ocr
: package.  It is an intelligent ocr package designed with the blind user in
: mind with all sorts of tweeks to make the end result more readable.
:
: But that isn't all:  K1000 is more than a ocr package.  It is an
: integrated package allowing scanned documents to be edited and read in it.
: It can be used to read books.  It has download features for books from
: various sources such as BookShare and Web-Braille.
: It can take documents and make mp3 files out of them.
: It can convert documents between formats.
: It has a money identifying function.
:
: Sure, a ocr engine can be had far cheaper.  But with K1000, it has more
: than 1 search engine.  It has the ability to fine tune that scan engine.
: And when you get beyond this, by the time, you put together all the other
: features of K1000, you likely will have spent far more.
: Aned with K1000, you have seamless integration not a hodge podge which
: inevitably is the result of attempting to peace things together.
:
: And from the standpoint of an agency such as the Lighthouse, providing
: technical support will be easier as your clients would be using a single
: package rather than a variety of things to achieve the end results.
:
: In short, one can have scanning far cheaper -- agreed!  But for a blind
: user who is either technically unsavvy or one who has serious needs, going
: the cheap route is pennywise and dollar foolish.
: Those who go the cheap route don't really appreciate what goes into the
: K1000 and Open Book package including, incidentally,
: customer support and product development.
:
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