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From: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey)
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Subject: Re: OSCAR IMPRESSIVE AT A GOOD PRICE
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Date: 14 Mar 91 04:24:52 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

The way we did it was to have the output of the Oscar and the KPR
reviewed on a screen by a sighted person comparing the actual documents
to waht was writtenon the screen.  The kpr made numerous mistakes
especiallywithnumbers.  There were documents that the KPR wouldnot
recognize and the scanner would get stuck on that the Oscar got through
with some slowness but it did get through it.  One of the things I like
best about the Oscar and I'm sure the Arkanstone software provides for
some of these same options is that documents can be sent directly to an
output device or saved to a file.  With the KPR there is a downloading
procedure that has to be used and that process seems to add a lot of
strange characters to the downloaded file.  I think these strange
characters are with commands.  If you braille something from the KPR
it's okay but listening to it through the computer speech systemyou
hear a lot of ^^ and so fourth. Grant

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