Yes, folks, that's the kind of informations I was trying to ask for. So if
we discover that some of the nokia's cameras can picture well book pages,
that will be an important thing for many talks users. If we can picture book
pages with good image quality possibly we don't need flatbed scanners
anymore. I think that now the matter is to check how precise are the
pictures taken by nokia's cameras with macro or close-up function.
Thanks a lot and excuse me for not beeing clear in my first explanations.
It's not easy to explain things in english when you're a portuguese speaker.
Regards, Paulo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorbu...@btinternet.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Talks] Using the cell phone as a scanner
Talks does not take pictures, the camera on the jphone takes the pictures.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daleen Spalletta" <spalle...@absamail.co.za>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Talks] Using the cell phone as a scanner
What I understand by this question is actually. What phone that
support's talks, will have a good enough camera to take pictures of pages
that can then be coppeid to a computer and then be read or recognized
with a OCR program so that it can be converted to txt or what ever
format.
Talks will only be used to help the user to use the phone, to take the
pictures not to OCR or anything.
Daleen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Giggar" <sgig...@gmail.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 11:28 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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