[Athen] Capturing Information on a Board

[Wink Harner]

Shelley

Did you try saving anything as MHTML and trying it with MathType/MathTalk?

Wink


>-- Original Message --

>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:19 -0800

>To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network <athen at athenpro.org>

>From: Shelley Haven <rmhaven at stanford.edu>

>Subject: Re: [Athen] Capturing Information on a Board

>Reply-To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network <athen at athenpro.org>

>

>

>To augment Wink's comments and address E.A.'s queries, mimio 

>handwriting recognition (Windows version only) is "adequate" but will 

>undoubtedly require editing just like any alt-formatted material. 

>(Most people don't write as legibly on a board as they do on paper.) 

>You can grab the material in real-time and select "Recognize Ink" to 

>immediately change the display, convert ink to text after the fact on 

>a saved board, or add text to a saved board with a typed annotation 

>(just like adding a text box).

>

>In addition to JPEG, PNG, HTML and several other formats, these mimio 

>boards can be saved directly as PDF files to the connected computer 

>-- no conversion necessary.  If the monitor for that "connected 

>computer" happens to be an LCD projector, and the image is projected 

>back to the whiteboard, you have the equivalent of a SmartBoard 

>interactive whiteboard.  So you can project PowerPoint slides or a 

>webpage, annotate with mimio, then save the results as a PDF.

>

>I just tried this with my personal mimio and used both Kurzweil and 

>WYNN to scan and OCR the saved PDF.  As you might expect, the results 

>depend a lot on the source material and the resolution (I'm not sure 

>about mimio's maximum resolution).  A colorful webpage with 

>less-than-ideal contrasts, lots of fonts, and inverted text produces 

>less than satisfactory results.  A PowerPoint with consistent (and 

>larger) fonts might work OK.

>

>As for math...mimio won't convert equations satisfactorily.

>

>Hope this helps (or at least gets the wheels turning!).

>

>- Shelley Haven

>

>

>>Thanks for the good wishes, E. I tore a tendon in my knee (driving knee

>no

>>less!) and had it repaired last week. It's well on the way to mending.

I

>>already have cabin fever, so the recuperation is going along nicely. Will

>>be back to work and thundering speed next week.

>>

>>In my poking around, I found some interesting ideas to pursue in re both

>>smart board & mimio. Both offer a handwriting recognition plug in which

>would

>>also allow a projection (PPT etc.) on the board to have comments written

>>ON it and saved as text rather than images. Don't know how accurate it

may

>>be, but also I found these conversion programs which may help in the process:

>>Image Converter Plus (appx. $49), Universal Document Converter ($69) and

>>'Convert Image to PDF' from Softinterface Inc. (free download), the JPEG,

>>TIFF or GIF files can be converted to PDF and a screen reader can be used.

>>If the conversion is to text, again there is a choice of refreshable Braille

>>or hardcopy Braille. I do not know how easy it would be to convert math,

>>but with MathType and MathSpeak software, it would be a worthy experiment

>>to find out!

>>

>>My daffodils are blooming today and I am going to take photos before it

>rains.

>>

>>Blessings

>>

>>Wink

>>

>>

>>>-- Original Message --

>>>From: "E.A. Draffan" <ea at emptech.info>

>>>To: "'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'" 

>>><athen at athenpro.org>,

>>>

>>>	<norm.coombs at gmail.com>

>>>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:33:04 -0000

>>>Subject: Re: [Athen] Capturing Information on a Board

>>>Reply-To: ea at emptech.info, Access Technologists in Higher Education Network

>>>	<athen at athenpro.org>

>>>

>>>

>>>Hope you are making a full recovery Wink and all is well.  I would also

>>be

>>>interested to learn how you separate or add text with the images in an

>>>accessible way from digital white boards unless it is part of the original

>>>presentation?  It is the same dilemma I have been trying to think about

>>when

>>>students have OneNote files for organising all their ideas.

>>>

>>>Best wishes E.A.

>>>

>>>Mrs E.A. Draffan

>>>Learning Societies Lab,

>>>ECS, University of Southampton,

>>>Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246

>>>http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk

>>>http://www.emptech.info

>>>

>>>

>>Ms. Wink Harner

>>Manager

>>Disability Resources & Services

>>Mesa Community College

>>Mesa AZ

>>

>>480-461-7447

>>

>>

>>

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Ms. Wink Harner
Manager
Disability Resources & Services
Mesa Community College
Mesa AZ

480-461-7447