Is it true that, somebody mentioned this to me yesterday, that with finereader 8 you can use a mobile phone/camera for immage scanning? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aruni Arsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:41 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Reading with eyes that speak for you
>I don't see any reason why the software can't be used in conjunction with > any smart phone to produce same results. The KNFB reader is at present so > expensive that it would be beyond the reach of a wealthy American let > alone > the people in the developing countries. Efforts should be made by the > Indian > companies to work in this direction. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taraprakash > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:59 PM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: Re: [AI] Reading with eyes that speak for you > > I think KNFB reader is using the same technology. It takes immage of the > object to be scanned. The text is then recognised and then converted to > speech. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aruni Arsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:49 AM > Subject: Re: [AI] Reading with eyes that speak for you > > >> We would better have the OCR's which use mobile camera to convert the >> image >> into text. That would be even easier to manage once we find out a way to >> focus the text properly. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal >> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 6:45 AM >> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in >> Subject: Re: [AI] Reading with eyes that speak for you >> >> Hi all, >> <snip Until now, the visually impaired had to use the tactile (touch) >> sense >> to recognise the world around them, Braille being the most established >> method. >> PL] this is just plain wrong though the rest of the article is reasonably >> descriptive about the device. I hope we get a commercial product in the >> near >> future. >> Pranav >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with >> the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
