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Add A Scanner

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, fails 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.

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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