[Athen] FW: Scanners

[Ron Stewart]

Anyone have any experience with the newer bookedge scanners.  Please reply
to the list, since this is good info for everyone to have.

Ron Stewart 

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Osier [mailto:donald.osier at maine.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:44 AM
To: ron at ahead.org
Subject: Scanners

Hi Ron,

We met just over a year ago in Boulder.  I am writing to ask a scanner
related question.  I am curious if you have had any experience with scanners
of the type which as a group are called book scanners.  Unlike a flat bed,
the book is placed face up with a separate scan of both pages.  Bookeye and
CopiBook are two versions.  Kyokko-Seiko has one as well.

What I am working toward is an equipment set up that students can use
independently to scan books quickly without having to chop the binding.  I
am especially interested in a system that students who have print
difficulties that don't rise to the level of disability could use to scan
texts for use with Kurzweil or similar programs.  The book scanner type
equipment seems the way to go if it meets the technical needs to be
compatible with adaptive software programs.  I called the Kurzweil folks,
and they were not aware of the book scanner type of equipment.  Do you have
any knowledge of this type of equipment?  Am I barking up the wrong tree?  I
look forward to your perspective.

--Don

Donald T. Osier
Director of Learning Support Services
University of Maine at Augusta
46 University Drive
Augusta, ME  04330
(207) 621-3066