Yes, I agree. Reading through this thread I'm just sitting back and actually waiting to try the app before posting something I know nothing about, but I will add that I'm especially curious about the following:
Will this thing OCR and read computer screens? Be kinda cool if this would allow me to troubleshoot in BIOS, when installing drivers which crash audio, or when screenreader crashes. Will this thing OCR and read TV screens such as menus? Will this thing read the buttons on elevators? Will this read signs on doors--especially the little male figure and figure wearing a dress placed on doors--so I won't have to ask about bathroom signs? <Smile>. Will this quickly OCR the sender of my paper mail to quickly dump the annoying spam mail? I wonder if this will OCR a house address number from the curb or close distance? I already know paper currency is out of the question for now, but how will it do identifying credit cards and or debit cards since K1000 and OpenBook don't give me that much info since the relief surface on the cards make scanning a bit difficult? <Smile>. Because customer service often requests such information, I'm wondering if this will allow me to read serial numbers on electronic equipment such as a modem, DVR, radio, etc. Would be cool if this thing could read the little displays on washing machines, microwaves, stoves, etc. Kinda curious if this will allow for 2-page scans when scanning a book such as a novel or textbook. Heck, even a single page scan without allowing artifacts from second page will do. <Smile>. Wondering if it will be able to handle a very small 6 point font such as that found on those annoying, little User manual booklets included in new hardware. Also wondering how intelligent it will be in terms of correctly structuring the page elements in the event there are graphs and charts and alike with the goal being one of only picking out the text. Again, just curious. <Smile>. Joseph the free tech guy! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald L. Roberts" <donald.robert...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 7:24 AM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader App I haven't yet heard the KNFB reader demo in its entirety. I have been wanting an app which can pick out only numbers and letters which it sees. For example, I have used talking goggles in an attempt to read the display on my CC radio plus. Occasionally it will read the numbers, but often it will say something like "gray C Crane radio." Some or all of this may well be a problem with my pointing the camera. But I wish it were possible to direct an app to read only alpha numerics. Don Roberts On 7/6/2014 3:08 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > I don't think speed is the only issue here. If it really can do > PowerPoint slides, as they claim, and if it gets better results is it so > picky, then it would probably be worth for some people. I have never had > good results with an OCR app on my phone. If I could get decent results > with this app, I would pay for it. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 6, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Richard Turner <rich...@turner42.com > <mailto:rich...@turner42.com>> wrote: > >> If it was $30 I might consider it if other demos show equal results in >> speed and accuracy, but $99? 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