Donna,
I remain very skeptical for how well it will work for those with no vision for
the reasons I listed. I was not the only blind person who tested the device I
spoke about, and nobody with no vision was able to get it to read anything.
That said, please don't confuse my skepticism with acti
David, with all due respect, you're making a lot of suppositions here. I
understand that you didn't feel the device you tested worked well, but you
can't extrapolate from that and say that because that device didn't, this one
won't either. they're different devices, designed by different peopl
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
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 wou
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 virtual
This is not the first device of the type. It may well be the smallest.
I beta tested a similar device a few years ago to help assess how it might work
for blind users.
The problem with these devices and the blind is, these devices require exact
tracking of each line of text. They also require t
Hi Anne,
Well of course it's always wait and see with any of these things. And it sounds
like all they have now is a prototype, so who knows if it'll ever amount to
more. And even if they do develop it, I wonder how good the OCR will be. I
just thought it looked like an interesting device.
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,
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 an
Hello Donna,
This is interesting inasmuch as it comes from a well-funded lab. But over the
years, I've heard of so many attempts to produce something of this sort and
very few of them have come to market. One that has is the TopBraille, which
converts printed characters to Braille characters an
> 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 w
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