Ok, sorry about my last message; still getting caught up on 2 days worth of e-mail, and this one turned into a 72 message thread. On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:28 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Apparently the app is $100. > > CB > > Baltimore, Maryland (September 18, 2014): The National Federation of the > Blind, the nation's leading advocate for access to print by the blind, has > applauded the release of KNFB Reader, a new app for the iPhone and other > Apple iOS devices, which uses the phone's camera and state-of-the-art optical > character recognition (OCR) technology to give the blind instant access to > the contents of print materials. Members of the National Federation of the > Blind have worked with K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., which developed the > app along with Sensotec, Inc. KNFB Reader is now available in the iTunes app > store. > > Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: "The > National Federation of the Blind has been involved for forty years in the > development of technology that helps blind people to acquire access to the > various print materials that we all encounter from day to day. Ever since our > first collaboration with Ray Kurzweil to develop the Kurzweil Reading > Machine, which was the size of a household appliance, we have been interested > in the development of better and more portable reading technology. Print on > office documents, flyers, letters, menus, labels, and throughout our > environment is still a part of everyday life, even with the increased > electronic transmission of documents. Now revolutionary technology that > resides on the phones that many of us carry each day provides instant access > to the printed word. We can hear our mail or the menu at our favorite > restaurant spoken with the iPhone's built-in text-to-speech technology, or > read it in Braille with a refreshable Braille display. This app will > fundamentally change the everyday lives of many blind people, helping us to > get the information we need and live the lives we want." > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
