A $100 scanner gives everyone, not just people with low vision, the ability to scan in documents, save them to a computer, blow them up to whatever size you want, use a simple graphics program like Windows 3D Paint to hightlight sections and overlay text and other images, and email the results to others. |
It also does OCR, though that depends on the quality
of the source document.
Unfortunately, the pictured scanner, a Canon LiDE
400, failed to install under Windows 11.
The installation program downloads a self-extracting archive, which tries to run in the background, fails to self-extract. This causes the scanner not to be detected. This was no longer problem after re-installing Windows 10. |
Sure beats the heck out of the "old way" of using a closed
circuit TV camera mounted on a gooseneck to read a document as
you slide it back and forth under the camera and look at
the resulting blurry image on a dedicated monitor.
And it's a lot cheaper than the $5,000 modern day equivalent with built-in 16" screen that you still have to move either the document or the camera around to actually read everything, because a 16" screen just isn't big enough. If if were, you wouldn't be low vision. |