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ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition introduces a variety of improvements and new features to help you increase productivity when working with scanned documents, images, PDF files, and faxes. This new version offers intelligent technology enchancements which ensure improved reading of document images taken by digital cameras, more accurate recognition of low-resolution faxes and paper documents, better handling of document layouts, and enhanced security settings in PDF files.

Juliet Pro 60

Juliet Pro 60 has a 40-character-wide embossing line and 60-character-per-second speed. It also includes two other standard features: Single Sheet Tractors and ET Speaks, an innovative speech system.

Juliet Pro

The Juliet Pro features extra-wide 56-character embossing line Brailles two sides at once at up to 55 characters per second. It also comes with Single Sheet Tractors and ET Speaks, an innovative speech system, as standard equipment.

Blind man will sue American Bar Association

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:00 -- admin

A federal lawsuit will be filed against the American Bar Association on behalf of a blind man arguing the required Law School Admissions Test is biased against the visually impaired and should not be required of blind law school applicants.

The suit will be filed on May 24 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Attorney Richard Bernstein said.

Bernstein, who is blind, was the last law student to be admitted to law school 15 years ago without taking the LSAT.

Juliet Classic

Juliet Classic prints top quality Braille on both sides of a page up to 56 characters wide and speed of up to 55 characters a second. Juliet Classic's standard features include: , ,  Regular (12.5 dots per inch) and high-resolution (17 DPI) graphics ,  Dynamic Braille Scaling for different Braille sizes (even within a document) ,  6 or 8-dot Braille ,  Multi-Copy up to 99 copies of a document,

Gemini Print and Braille Embosser

Gemini Print and Braille Embosser produces print with Braille in one simultaneous pass, fulfilling a long-time dream of Braille producers everywhere. That’s not all that’s special about Gemini. The next thing you may notice about Gemini might be what it doesn't do— make much noise! Gemini is so extraordinarily quiet you won’t need to exile it to a closet or a sound-muffling cabinet.

ET

Producing top-quality Braille at 60 characters per second, ET's shorter 40-character line makes full use of standard-width Braille paper. ET is a speedy and economical choice to get professional-looking, space-saving interpoint.

Blind cruisers get to 'smell the ocean and feel the wind'

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:56 -- admin

This spring, Patty and Terry Horvath took 46 blind travelers on a Caribbean cruise.

The owners of Best Cruises & Tours in Grand Blanc, Mich., let participants pay $20 a week in installments for months or years to pay for the trip. They subsidized seven volunteers to accompany the group. They arranged special shore excursions on Nassau, St. Thomas and St. Martin. They kept the price as low as they could, pairing up the mostly solo travelers in double rooms.

Their biggest contribution? Serving a completely passed-over market — blind travelers on a budget.

Braille Place

BraillePlace, with speeds of nearly 300 characters per second and a 45-character line, is serious productivity for serious Braille publishing. BraillePlace connects to any computer through its parallel or serial ports and includes ET Speaks to vocalize controls and do other audio tasks.e

Braille Express 150

Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint Braille Express 150 has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 150 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a Braille Express 150, used for five hours a day, can produce about a half-million pages in a year.

India to host blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:53 -- admin

India is set to host the inaugural blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup in December.

David Townley, president of the World Blind Cricket Council, says the group voted during a two-day meeting in the United Arab Emirates that ended Sunday to hold the tournament in Bangalore starting on Dec. 3. Its schedule has yet to be finalized but the tournament will last a maximum of 14 days.

He says council members Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, West Indies and England will participate.

Braille Express 100

Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint Braille Express 100 has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 100 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a Braille Express 100, used for five hours a day can produce over 350,000 pages in a year.

Wheelchair uses 3D to ‘see’ for visually impaired

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:51 -- admin

Research on an electric wheelchair that can sense it´s environment and transmit information to a person who is visually impaired, has been tested at Lulea University of Technology.

The wheelchair has a joystick for steering and a haptic robot that acts as a virtual white cane. The “sighted” wheelchair has been developed by Kalevi Hyyppa and his team at the university.

“This may be important aids for the visually impaired who are wheelchair users. Many have already been in touch with me and asked if they can come for a test drive,” says Kalevi Hyyppä.

Book Maker

Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint BookMaker has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 80 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a BookMaker, used for five hours a day can produce around a quarter-million pages in a year.a

Mega Dots

MegaDots is a mature DOS braille translator with powerful features for the volume transcriber and producer. Its straightforward, style-based system and automated features let you create great braille with only a few keystrokes

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