[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare at ATIA and bring on the future
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:16:23 -0500
Thanks Guido,
I hope we net a new batch of members and volunteers at ATIA.
Always with love,
Lissi
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From: Guido Corona
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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:07 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare at ATIA and bring on the future
Hi Lissi, yes Bookshare.org will have a table at the ATIA conference. I'll
find out details and will post here.
Guido
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were
guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the
most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
[David Poyer, The Command]
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Dear Guido, Bookshare Staff and Booksharian Friends,
Will Bookshare be represented at the ATIA conference by staff or volunteers?
I don't know if Bookshare fits in with the purpose of the ATIA conference. For
the sake of spreading the word I was just wondering.
I also don't know what sidebars and toolbars are or what they do. The
discussion last Tuesday about Gidgits and Gadgets was out of my JAWS user's,
computer illiterate, league, but I felt I was tapping into future trends and
that the terms I didn't understand would be familiar to me sooner than later.
Since I've had a clue about such things, I've accepted that accessibility
runs behind what seeing people use and take for granted. With Bookshare, the
staff care about including us. They are asking what we want and what we think
well in advance of the technology we can use being developed. I thought all the
signs were encouraging and exciting and wished more members and volunteers
would have been there. I thought the sample tastes of what is being dreamed
about, researched and developed, though exotic in my experience, were enticing.
Companies that serve the general population gallop ahead heedless of those of
us who rely on adaptive technology. Bookshare has been, and is, all about
putting us in the loop with books and in contexts where books loom large.
I'm with Monica and Guido, looking forward to the books and book related
tools and toys Bookshare's engineers will be offering us
And I agree with everyone who is pointing to themselves and saying, "Me! Me!"
when it comes to beta testing. The engineers and service development staff
definitely have their pick of intelligent, diligent, cooperative, print reading
and computer access challenged volunteers using and conversant with every
conceivable combination of adaptive device. We're too many, too eager and too
vocal to be overlooked when it's time to beta test whatever is nearing
readiness!
Always with love,
:Lissi
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From: Guido Corona
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Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning:
I suspect that OpenBook 8 may start delivering after the ATIA conference at
the end of January in Orlando:
http://www.atia.org
G.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were
guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the
most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
[David Poyer, The Command]
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Is there an OpenBook 8? I just checked the Openbook Downloads section of
FS's website but could only find updates to get it to 7.02 (with a few build
numbers added on that elude me for the moment, but it's the version I already
have). Am I looking in the wrong place?
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From: Guido Corona
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning:
OpenBook v6 is very old. Since then there have been significant advances in
accuracy of text recognition. You may still be in time to obtain a low cost
upgrade to Openbook 8. You may want to contact Freedom Scientific at
800-336-5658.
In most cases, current OCR packages have little problems with title pages.
Conversely, in olden days title pages were. . . terrible.
G.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were
guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the
most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
[David Poyer, The Command]
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I lay the book on the scanner with the back cover facing left and the front
cover facing right. But every Time I lay a page of the book like that on the
scanner especially the title page it comes out jibberish like abunch of letters
and a bunch of periods. I use a epson scanner as well. I use use version 6 of
openbook. Could that be why the title page comes out unreadable?
Is there a version of open book that can recignize text better than version
6.0 of open book?
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