Hello everyone, I'm just wondering if anyone has tried using the KNFB reader with a battery something like the mophy juice pack attached? Is there a difference in using it?
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 21, 2014, at 8:55 PM, Kevin Mattingly <kdmattin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In 1990 Vocational Rehab and an associated State organization for > unemployment purchased the Kurzweil personal reader for me. That purchase > and the technology opened a door to employment for me. Since that experience, > I would recommend anything developed by Kurzweil. It worked then and it > works now. > > Kevin > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 21, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Krister, >> >> I'm not a developer, so make no evaluation whatsoever of how much work they >> had to do to add the tilt guidance, field of view, and the anti-skewing >> stuff. I still think the price was too high, but as Kevin wrote on Friday, >> it just works. I know some people put a lot of time into learning to use >> Prizmo, and I understand that they got good results. I barely have enough >> time to breathe each day. I get up in the morning and am busy till I go to >> bed at night. I don't have that kind of time to spend practicing to use an >> app. So yes, I do think the price is high, but I also know that it meets my >> needs without requiring a ton of practice time. So I bought it, and I >> recommend it to others. >> >> As to your question what if someone else built those same features into a >> mainstream app, I think that'd be fabulous. But right now that hasn't >> happened, so I'm going with the KNFB reader. >> Cheers, >> Donna >>> On Sep 21, 2014, at 3:58 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Well, Prizmo has some kind of guidance similar to the KNFB reader but it >>> seems to be unreliable at times and i don't think it has the tilt sensor. >>> What if that was built in? And another question on the same topic: The way >>> we all, me included skeptical as i am, rave about the KNFB reader, how much >>> do we really know about what the folks have done to make it this good? What >>> if it was only the tilt sensor and the field view report and the rest was >>> an ordinary OCR app? We make it sound like this app is the worlds 8th >>> miracle, what if it ain't? What if some mainstream developer added at leas >>> the guidance that Prizmo already has and a tilt sensor and it became just >>> as good? >>> Sorry for sounding skeptical, i'm just wondering about things. >>> /Krister >>> >>>> 20 sep 2014 kl. 18:41 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com>: >>>> >>>> Well, I can certainly agree that assistive isn't always equal to >>>> overpriced, and indeed I have owned the flatbed and now own the camera >>>> edition Sara, both of which have worked quite well, and with mainstream >>>> OCR software and flatbed scanners, really quite excellently. Anything to >>>> lower the cost of investment is always useful though. I am hoping to >>>> standardise on something that is accurate and realistically caters to my >>>> needs, and this app looks very promising going forward. However I do >>>> worry that the cost would not be justified if I found another app. I have >>>> had all the mentioned apps so far--TextDetective, TextGrabber, and >>>> Prizmo--and have not even been able to choose among these three yet, >>>> though Prizmo is now the one on my phone. Can anyone suggest ways in >>>> which any of these three apps might somehow be improved to match the speed >>>> and accuracy of KNFB as it now stands? A difficult question, I know, but >>>> I'm hoping someone knows something I don't. 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