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: [email protected] 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]>; <[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 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
