Hi Dani. I was fortunate enough to have someone purchase the KNFB Reader app for me. However, I can honestly say that I would have purchased it myself if necessary and never regretted the investment. I knew that with utter certainty the first day I had the app. Prior to getting it, I was using Kurzweil1000 on my Windows PC for my OCR needs. I had tried Prizmo and another app but had never been able to take a good enough picture due to a lack of guidance.
I haven't had a scanner on my desk since about a week after I got the KNFB Reader app. It simply became obvious by that point that I'd never want to use one again All through that first week, I kept expecting to find some reason why I'd want to hold onto my scanner. However, in every case, I got results that were just as good and/or better. Those results only took seconds at most from the time I laid out a sheet to be read to the time I heard enough to know what the page was. Being on social assistance, I know how tight money can get. Both my wife and I have the KNFB Reader app. She bought her copy for herself after hearing me use mine. I've told two friends, also on social assistance and feeling the financial pinch about the sale this week. I know they're in the best of hands with this app and won't regret their purchase of it either. I use the app every day to read my mail. I've used it to read instructions on boxes, and even to do things it wasn't designed for like reading beer bottles and labels on soup cans. While updating to Windows10, there are long stretches when you computer won't speak to you. I used KNFB Reader to read the screen and learn that the update was still progressing. I've read signs my cane has contacted on pathways I was walking along. Nothing says things have to be flat and horizontal to be read. One thing to note is that ambient lighting makes a big difference. The only times my lights are on are when I'm having sighted guests or taking pictures of pages or objects. The app will make use of your i device's camera flash so even in dark conditions, it's worth a shot. On the first day I got KNFB Reader, I also got one of those huge folded sheets of mail from the Ontario government. You know the ones which are big enough to be posters? Sighted people must find them easy to just look down and take the contents in. Those sheets are nightmares to try and scan since they're too big to fit in most flat-bed scanners. You're basically reduced to lining up a short and long side of the page with your scanner and hoping to get something meaningful. If you manage to read enough to figure out what the blasted thing's about after a few tries, you feel like you've won a wrestling match. I laid the sheet on my dining room table, turned on the lights, and proceeded to use the field of view report. I continued to raise my iPHONE flat above the page while double-tapping the field of view report button until it told me that all four edges of the sheet were visible. I then made certain that the tilt guidance vibrations had stopped so I knew I had it as flat as possible. I then took the picture and began to hear a nearly perfect scan of this monster page read out to me. The recognition process was just so much faster than anything I had ever thought possible. It blew my mind. I don't usually write emails like this before 5 AM but I thought I'd better do so in this case. This is one of those times when you should pounce. You don't have to pay for updates to the app. Put in the time to practice lining up pages and you won't need more than one or two field of view reports before you take the picture to be scanned. As long as I have an iPHONE or could get an iPOD in a real pinch, I know I won't need to worry about reading print. On 5/16/16, Dani Pagador <axs....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Everyone. > I know that the KNFB Reader is going to be on sale soon. For those of > you who have, and use it, why would you choose KNFB over all the > options that are VO- and blind-friendly? > > I'm on a really tight budget and don't have the money to try out all > the possibilities. 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