Re: OCR on new iPhone could change our lives forever.

2010-05-20 Thread Andy Lane
Hi there, You don't need xenon flash at all, I had a Nokia N95 and a Nokia N86. the N95 had a 5mp camera with single LED flash and the N86 had an 8mp camera with dual LED. They both work perfectly with the trial of Text Scout which is an app available for symbian. it unfortunately costs £900 thoug

Re: OCR on new iPhone could change our lives forever.

2010-05-20 Thread Brent Harding
I heard that in order for it to work, they wanted a xenon flash instead of LED. This might be because of getting lighting right. I wish they had this for other platforms too as I'm stuck on CDMA with Sprint as I need coverage where AT&T won't go but carriers Sprint can roam on will. - Orig

RE: OCR on new iPhone could change our lives forever.

2010-05-20 Thread Cameron
Hi. you have some really good points. Another parallel I'd draw would be the talking gps units in cars verses the ones designed for vi use. Not a lot of difference, but, one costs over 10 times the other and sometimes more. If apple, a somewhat small company in the grand scheme of things, can d

RE: OCR on new iPhone could change our lives forever.

2010-05-20 Thread Cameron
Of Andy Lane Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:07 PM To: MacVisionaries Subject: Re: OCR on new iPhone could change our lives forever. I've been thinking more about this, what about a CCTV app for the new iPhone, This could obviously be easily updated to run on the i Pad version 2 or 3 which

Re: OCR on new iPhone could change our lives forever.

2010-05-20 Thread Andy Lane
I've been thinking more about this, what about a CCTV app for the new iPhone, This could obviously be easily updated to run on the i Pad version 2 or 3 which will probably have a camera. What about the future when processors have got faster and an app could be written to guide someone through a cr