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]>; <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] > 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
