[Athen] Scanner Hardware -- slight twist: what model for a blind student?

Doug Hayman dhayman at uw.edu
Tue Oct 6 10:56:21 PDT 2015


The Pearl Document Camera paired with OpenBook, both by Freedom Scientific
is good for a user who is blind and not needing to scan lots of pages.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Nettie Fischer <nettiet at gmail.com> wrote:


> I have and use a Canon LiDE 210 and have been pleased with the output.

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> Nettie's Nickel

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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Alexa Schriempf <ats169 at psu.edu> wrote:

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>> Hi all:

>>

>> I'm in a wonderful and unique position of being able to purchase a

>> scanner and Kurzweil 1000 for use by a blind PhD student; this equipment

>> will be set up in the building where they work.

>>

>> Any recommendations for non-professional grade scanners, preferably of

>> the Canon variety since its software apparently works a little better with

>> K1000? I'd like to have high resolution and a document feeder, at a

>> minimum.

>>

>> Suggestions?

>>

>> -Alexa

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Doug Hayman <dhayman at u.washington.edu>
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DO-IT Program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology)
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