I don't have that app;but I do have the iphone5 with IOS8 and have noticed that
my voiceover will turn off randomly. I restored my phone 2 hours ago. Hopefully
that problem doesn't persist.
Regards, Feliciano
www.twitter.com/theblindman12v
From: Matt Dierckens
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 8:17 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: KNFB Reader iPhone App
Hi
Have any iPhone 5 users experienced the phone shutting off when you have the
KNFB reader opened and on battery power? Mine has shut off at least three times
since I bought the app.
Matt Dierckens
Macintosh Trainer
Blind Access Training
www.blindaccesstraining.com
1-877-774-7670 ext. 3
Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com
Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com
On Sep 20, 2014, at 11:04, Jenine Stanley <dragonwalke...@gmail.com> wrote:
I’ve been using it on a variety of things and have found the app to be much
more reliable in terms of getting good pictures initially, than my attempts
with other OCR apps.
I’d like to pride myself on being able to take fairly good pictures for OCR
purposes but for some reason, I never had good luck or consistency with the
other OCR apps.
Last night, just for fun and to prove to my husband that the app worked, I
took a picture of our television screen from about 8 feet away. It’s a 42 inch
TV. There was an add on for one of those legal services that sues if you have
had some disease or other.
The app read most of the text on screen accurately including a phone number
and web address. It faltered near the end of the text but I suspect it was
scrolling or stylized. It did make an attempt though.
To say I was in shock is an understatement. Now I wish I’d saved the scan.
Jenine Stanley
dragonwalke...@gmail.com
On Sep 20, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
See my last post. Basically, the app comes with features that give you
very good feedback while your positioning the camera.
Best,
Donna
On Sep 20, 2014, at 7:44 AM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote:
HI!
ONE THING I'D LIKE TO KNOW IS HOW WOULD ONE KNOW WHERE AND HOW TO HOLD
THE CAMERA OVER a paper.
Anyone?
/A
19 sep 2014 kl. 16:28 skrev 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>:
Apparently the app is $100.
CB
Baltimore, Maryland (September 18, 2014): The National Federation of
the Blind, the nation’s leading advocate for access to print by the blind, has
applauded the release of KNFB Reader, a new app for the iPhone and other Apple
iOS devices, which uses the phone’s camera and state-of-the-art optical
character recognition (OCR) technology to give the blind instant access to the
contents of print materials. Members of the National Federation of the Blind
have worked with K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., which developed the app along
with Sensotec, Inc. KNFB Reader is now available in the iTunes app store.
Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind,
said: “The National Federation of the Blind has been involved for forty years
in the development of technology that helps blind people to acquire access to
the various print materials that we all encounter from day to day. Ever since
our first collaboration with Ray Kurzweil to develop the Kurzweil Reading
Machine, which was the size of a household appliance, we have been interested
in the development of better and more portable reading technology. Print on
office documents, flyers, letters, menus, labels, and throughout our
environment is still a part of everyday life, even with the increased
electronic transmission of documents. Now revolutionary technology that resides
on the phones that many of us carry each day provides instant access to the
printed word. We can hear our mail or the menu at our favorite restaurant
spoken with the iPhone’s built-in text-to-speech technology, or read it in
Braille with a refreshable Braille display. This app will fundamentally change
the everyday lives of many blind people, helping us to get the information we
need and live the lives we want.”
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