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From: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh)
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Subject: Re: scanner
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Date: 27 Nov 90 21:13:05 GMT
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     Hi Lee, the Mars 105 will copy text but to be able to manipulate it 
as a text file you will need OCR software. While the price on the stuff 
has come down it is still hefty. I did some checking on the Readright 
program that will work on my machine is over $300. There is another 
input scanner that will read aloud, let you manipulate the file and 
print to both a braille printer and a regular printer. I saw it 
demonstrated in ST. Louis and will look up the info for you. It is a 
hefty price though, a lot less than Kurtzweil but still about $4000 if 
my memory serves me well.
       I'm glad to here you've got a really intresting Thanksgiving 
planned, but isn't it a little nippy to go camping? This year I'm go;ing 
to my parents houseMy sister from California can't get time off at 
Christmas so she is comming for Thanksgiving as well as my brother and 
his family from Cincinati. So it is turning into a family reunion. It 
will also be a double dinner day because Ray's parents want us over also 
and his sister from Atlanta and her husband are comming up also. The 
turkeys wont be the only things stuffed that day.  I hope you have a 
nice Thanksgiving and that smoked turkey sounds fabulous. You'll have to 
give me the instructions on how to do that. Well better be getting on 
so till later.....
                       Pandora

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