Re: [NTLK] Siemens Pocket Reader OCR

From: Donald I. Wilson (marchie_at_donaldwilson.info)
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 20:59:25 PDT


I'll be honest: I use mine alot less than I thought I would.

Also, I was REALLY hoping I could get it to work in OS X, but I can't.
I do use mine w/ the Newt, but since I got my 12 inch Powerbook, I use
my Newt2100 little.

I'm hoping that Einstein will allow the capture/binding of a serial port
so I can dump into Einstein and then into computers filesystem.

It does have good accuracy, after you learn how to use it properly. I
can scan several lines of code from books and them dump it into my
computer. IIt does have trouble distinguishing > and < from ) and (

~Donald

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:51:58PM -0500, David M. Ensteness wrote:
> I was just getting curious about these - anyone have impressions they
> could share or important things to know? I was thinking I'd use it
> with a 2100 and the Newt Pocket Reader pkg.
>
> David

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