No, your supposition is flawed. I also had am opticon when I was younger, and I became fairly proficient with it.
The optican provides direct tactile (haptic) stimulation on the finger. You use that stimulation to correct your camera placement whilst scanning the line. Even the fastest optican users had a minor amount of drift whilst reading. The OCR system does not provide immediate tactile feedback. It provides audible feedback once the buffer is full and processes. During that time, you have no idea what your camera is doing on the line. In fact, the narrower the camera from top to bottom, the worse this aspect becomes. Also, the Opticon had the ability to adjust camera magnification on the fly for adjusting to different text sizes. With this system, you do not know the size of each line of text, so you do not know how far down to drop for each line to be scanned. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Feb 2014, at 12:03, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > > Actually, David, I’d have to disagree. This may be one of those subjective > things that’s different for different people. But I used an Optacon as a > kid, and with a little practice had no problem moving the device across the > page. I think that for me, having the physical page as an anchor would be > easier than just figuring out where in the air to let my iPhone hover. But > again, this may be a subjective thing. > Cheers, > Donna >> On Feb 26, 2014, at 2:14 PM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Actually, it would be much more difficult to focus than the iPhone. You need >> to know where each line of text starts, and you need to track each line >> precisely whilst keeping the text with as little skew as possible. If you >> think the iPhone is difficult for OCR, you would find this device virtually >> unusable. >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 26 Feb 2014, at 12:09, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Erik, >>> >>> I don’t think anyone would ever read War and Peace with either device, but >>> it could provide an interesting alternative for short documents. Probably >>> similar to Prismo and Text Grabber, but it seems it might be easier to >>> focus once you got the hang of it. >>> Cheers, >>> Donna >>>> On Feb 25, 2014, at 11:47 AM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Donna, I've personally been intrigued by the Ectaco C-Pen 3.5 for over >>>> a year now. I haven't bought the thing because my business started to >>>> impload last year around my personal problems and there was never enough >>>> resources to expense the $150 unit. The reviews on it are extremely mixed >>>> and I have not been able to reach the company to set up an evaluation but >>>> the promo material looks pretty awsome. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >>>> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>> >>>>> On 2014-02-25, at 11:45 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> First, forgive the cross-post and the OT post., but as I know reading is >>>>>> a subject that occupies much space on both lists, it seemed appropriate >>>>>> to post to both. >>>>>> >>>>>> Below is a link I received to an article about a new product under >>>>>> development. It’s a device that you wear on your finger, and then scan >>>>>> across a line of text to hear it read out loud. It obviously has a ways >>>>>> to go before it would be practical to use, but wow, what cool >>>>>> possibilities it could open up, if the OCR capability is decent. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/finger-computer-reads-books-aloud-140221.htm?utm_source=TW&utm_medium=DNews&utm_campaign=DNewsSocial >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Donna >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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