FindReader Pro and TextAloud MP3

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I am not selling these products. I pass this information long deal because I use these products to create e-books for myself. :? :? I have dyslexia and must read everything in audio format. This is one of the best ways that I have found to help myself and hopefully some students.

With these two programs you can create e-books cheaply.

FineReader Pro $150 is the best OCR program on the market and is the heart of all of the expensive adaptive software for scanning and reading.

TextAloud MP3 is a great text-to-speech program.

For more details go to my web site:
www.geocities.com/jnuttallphd

Jim — Michigan :D

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/13/2004 - 4:12 PM

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Jim,
Thanks for your input. Do you feel that FineReader Pro has the same quality OCR as WYNN and Kurzweil? If so, that’s very helpful to know. I recommend TextAloud MP3 also and really like expecially with the AT & T true voices.
Karen

Submitted by jnuttall on Wed, 01/14/2004 - 3:58 AM

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Hello Karen:

At the heart of both WYNN and Kurzweil is the FineReader Pro OCR engine. In other words both of those products use the OCR engine provided by FineReader as the center of their products.

Here is the additional news. In both, WYNN and Kurzweil they’re using the FineReader Pro OCR engine v6. However, you can purchase the newly released FineReader Pro V7 upgrade for $150, which is then better than either WYNN or Kurzweil.

I have the latest Kurzweil and purchased the new FineReader v7 and find the newer FineReader OCR engine to be better. However, Kurzweil or WYNN is the ease of use and provide for rapid scanning. FineReader is pretty easy to use. What I do is scan using FineReader and turn the book into an PDF, Word document and then read with TextAloud. Also I use FineReader to generate a text file that I send through TextAloud to create MP3 files which I then listen to as an audio books. Just finished scanning/reading Matt Ridley’s gook Genome. I also turn alot of Scientific American into audio files as well.

I was fortunate enought to get a good MP3 player for Christmas. It is sooo cool to carry around the little light MP3 player and listen to books and science articles created with FineReader and TextAloud.

Jim — Michigan
www.geocities.com/jnuttallphd

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