Hi Stephen,
I know that talks can't do any scanning. That's not what I've asked.
I'll try to be more clear.
I'm just asking if talks can access the menus of the cameras on n95, n86,
n82, etc.
For example, can talks users set black and white mode on and off?
Can we set macro mode on and off?
Can we set close-up mode on and off?
Can we choose automatic white balance?
This questions are just related to talks in nokia's phones.
I couldn't ask about talks in another list because they are not experts in
it.
KNFB listers and experts probably don't know enough about the usability of
cameras in nokia phones with talks.
Some talks users with low vision may want to use the camera to picture their
family, their trips, their books, etc.
So it would be nice to know if talks can access the menus of the camera.
I don't know if now my questions are more clear. I hope so.
If noone knows the answers, that's ok. We're humans and we don't know
everything.
Kind regards, Paulo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Giggar" <sgig...@gmail.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] Using the cell phone as a scanner
Talks is a screen reader and nothing else. So Talks isn't going to do any
scanning for you.
The KNFBReader list is going to be your best bet.
Signed: Stephen Giggar
Skype: dr-phone.
Hardware eventually fails, software eventually works.
No amount of bandwidth can fix poor design.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paulo Augusto" <pauloaugustoami...@yahoo.com.br>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] Using the cell phone as a scanner
Hi, thanks for the informations. I'm trying to get more info about knfb
but I'd like to insist that we should talk about this subject in this
list because my intention now is just to picture book pages with the cell
phone, not to have the ocr and other speech different from talks. KNFB
seems to have different functions such as ocr inside the cell phone and
its own speech.
But talks users may want just to picture books pages to send it later to
the desktop computer. KNFB will be nice if you need to read texts
imediatelly. But a lot of talks users may want to picture books to read
later. So nokia's phones with talks possibly can help.
But we need to know if we can set the phones to macro mode independently,
using talks.
In nokia's website they say that n95 has macro mode that can focus from
10 centimeters to 50 centimeters. Something around 3 inches to 15 inches.
But I wouldn't like to buy n95 just to test if I can do this kind of
work. If someone can tell me, yes,, you can picture book pages with n95
and talks, I would buy the phone. I still can find it to buy here in
Brazil.
Thanks again, Paulo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Outman" <wout...@earthlink.net>
To: "'Talks Mailing List'" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] Using the cell phone as a scanner
Hello.
Basically what you are describing is what the K-NFB Reader program does.
It works on phones such as the N-86 and N-95. I have it on an N-82
myself.
It isn't a function of Talks but a separate program entirely.
Bill Outman
-----Original Message-----
From: talks-boun...@talksusers.com [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com]
On
Behalf Of Paulo Augusto
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 10:43 AM
To: Talks Mailing List
Subject: [Talks] Using the cell phone as a scanner
Hi listers,
Some of us depend on scanners to read books. I have used flatbed
scanners
but it's kind of tricky to turn pages over.
Yesterday I found some information about the pearl scanner, that works
like
a camera picturing or photographing book pages. It makes the scanning
process much easier because we just need to turn pages with the book on
the
same position. It's much faster. But the pearl scanner costs about 1500
dollars. If some of nokia's phones can photograph book pages, it's an
important extra feature for talks users. If it's a new subject on this
list
and for talks developers, I guess it's already an important matter to
consider. It's related to educational purposes and can make talks even
more
useful for visually impaired people.
But if this idea of using phone cameras as a scanner has already been
tryed
and tests showed it doesn't work, please let me know. An aunt of mine
who's
a photographer told me it's fully possible to get book pages with a
digital
camera with macro function. Some of nokia cameras has macro lenses. I
think
it's a very important thing for us to research.
If you have a n86 or a n95 or any other phone with good lenses, maybe
you
can check if you can access this camera functions such as macro mode,
black
and white mode, etc.
Well, I know my english is sometimes confusing, so if I said something
that
is not comprehensible, plese ask me to explain again.
Regards, Paulo
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