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.
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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.
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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.
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Note: I do not sell computers.
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