Hi, Dave -- <div><br></div><div>There are some high-end commercial scanning stations (<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Scannx, Bookscan, etc) that do, indeed, scan to PDF (or to .doc, .rtf, etc), and also can email electronic copies of the files. The Public Services group of our library installed some of these this fall, and they seem to work pretty nicely as an institutional tool (noting that they're used less for access than for the convenience of faculty and graduate students scanning articles).</span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I'm not sure if there's something like this really scaled (or, more accurately, priced) to the individual user, as most of the solutions I've seen there have relied on the traditional bundle-with-OCR-software choice, but given the general utility of them, perhaps he can make a case for an institutional investment (I'm also not sure of the availability in Ghana, of course)?</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Adam</font></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Dave M. Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dave.M.Thomas@studentlife.du.edu" target="_blank">Dave.M.Thomas@studentlife.du.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Greetings!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have a friend who lives in Ghana. He has low vision and uses Zoom Text. He has asked me about scanners that scan text directly into readable PDFs. Does anybody know if this exists? Does Zoom Text have OCR built into its code?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dave<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dave Thomas, M.A.,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Academic CounselorAcademic Counselor<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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