I do know this for a fact. I did purchase OCRXTR along with maintenance a year ago last February for $366. My previous statement was in no way a lie. I have already negotiated a price with them. Perhaps instead of insulting my integrity you should ask who I talked to. I have a license number, product key and invoice number. You are a damn fool. On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:52:04 -0400you write: >Hello Terry, > > Do you know this for a fact? > > I have been talking to Ralph DeWitt at Vividata in the last few days and at this point they do not have a policy/price to m >ake the xtr ocr package available to blind users. > > Please DO NOT post Mis-information! It is worse than no information. > > Stay tuned. We are trying to negotiate a deal with Vividata. I will post here soon when we have it set up. > > At the moment, you can download the trial software and the manual from: > > ftp://www.linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/goodies/xtrclilite* > > If you do, please read/follow the instructions in the manual. You must obtain a license key from Vividata before you can us >e the software. This is the trial version only. > > As we know, many sighted people think that we blind people are helpless and require a lot of extra care. Vividata is a bit >concerned that if they make the software available to us at a reasonable price for single-users, their tech support department wil >l be overwhelmed with cries for help in installing/running the software. OUr negotiations with Vividata depend on their realizing >that we will not be calling them for a lot of hand-holding. So, please, if you download the trial version, READ and FOLLOW the ins >tructions in the manual. It really is quite easy to do. > > HTH, > > --terry > >On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Terry Klarich wrote: >> There is a special price for the ocrxtr product for thos of us who are blind. It's around $300. >> >> Terry >> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 07:58:26 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time)you write: >> >Hi guys >> > Anyone know of a reasonably priced OCR for linux? I took OCR shop >> >XTR for an evaluation run and, while I like it, it's price tag is way up >> >there--more so than any windows-based OCR at around $2300, $950 for the >> >light version. I didn't pay half that for finereader on windows, and I >> >think that price tag is just plain ludicrous. I haven't gotten anywhere >> >with gocr or ocrad, which are free. Anyone know of any other OCR programs >> >for linux? If I could find a good OCR program I could finally trash >> >windblows for good. Failing that, I just might have to see how well vmware >> >would work and run finereader in that. >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Speakup mailing list >> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >-- > >Name: Terry D. Cudney >Phone: (705) 422-0039 >E-mail: terry at wasaga.dyns.net >Web: wasaga.dyns.net > >Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... >having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. > >Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
