Getting To Know Kurzweil

Since October 15th, I've been carrying my now 'bursting to the seams' journal with all my musings about the whole 'getting to know Kurzweil' experience. Time to put pen to screen!

The general theme in all my musings?! That Kurzweil, the program itself, is fantastic, but, it has... shall we say... some ... relational issues. More on that in my next blog.

Oct. 15: Beth and I install a "Read Only" Kurzweil program on her computer. It is a gradual process. There are no programs running on her computer, yet it still takes a few tries. We begin adding some features to the text we've scanned.

Oct.17: Kurzweil will not open on Beth's laptop. As a back up, we saved our work from Weds. on my jump drive. Beth retrieves a school laptop, and we're running again.
*Zone Editing* takes us on the sharpest learning curve. Now we know, BEFORE WE SCAN, to photocopy the document and trim/cover any unwanted text. If you skip this step, the Kurzweil program stumbles over the reading of any text that is not directly left to right (i.e. images with the heading "Figure __ ", charts or page numbers). That's what happened when the Kurzweil program read our document. We applied "Zone Editing" after scanning , which is doable, but more time consuming than had we edited the text before scanning.
Beth and I also discovered a neat remedy when you accidentally delete a part of the text you do want Kurzweil to read. Here are the steps. (1) File (2) Properties (3) Sticky Note (4) In Place
For instance, in our document, we covered Figure 3.9 with a sticky note, as that was accidentally deleted during the Zone Editing process.