Neil I was thinking exactly the same thing. Those with total vision loss would not buy zoomtext, but rather purchase JAWS because it caters more to their needs. From what i have seen, zoomreader has a lot of visual queues (buttons etc) and i am not sure whether a totally blind user would be able to use it, especially when trying to take an accurate photo of a document.
On 06/04/2011, at 1:06 PM, Neil James wrote: > I would just like to point out that this is not an OCR app for the blind. > Rather it is geared towards those who have some usable vision much like zoom > text is. If one buys this app with the expectation that it will be an ocr > solution for the blind, one will be disappointment. The fact that people have > assumed that this app is an ocr app for the blind has sparked quite a debate > on the aiphone list. Hopefully this will help to eliminate confusion and save > some one from being disappointed. > > Neil > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Robertson" <a...@anarchie.org.uk> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 2:57 PM > Subject: Re: zoomreader for the iphone! > > >> Hello Marlaina, >> >> Really, there's nothing to get excited about. Hardly anyone has had any >> success with Zoom Reader. >> >> I'm totally blind and get reasonable results with Both Prizmo and SayText >> which are considerably cheaper than Zoom Reader. >> >> In my opinion, Prizmo is the best so far, and it's multilingual which for me >> is a big plus. >> >> All these OCR apps require quite a bit of practice before you get good >> results, but it can be done. >> >> For totals like me, I would recommend getting Light Detector as well to make >> sure that there's sufficient light for the OCR apps to work. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 5 Apr 2011, at 23:28, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: >> >>> I will be interested to hear how well it works. I'm excited. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature >> database 6017 (20110405) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
