Hi friends, I'm currently researching hardware options for reading large books as quickly as possible by processing text to OCR. Is there a recommended option that can function under both Macs and Windows, and perhaps even from Android or IPhone? Preferred is of course Macs and Windows platforms that the hardware can support. I've come across Kurzweil 1000 and the Perl camera by Freedom Scientific. I've got no idea how these would work. I wonder which is better?
When I was growing up and going to university in the 1990s, back then we had flat-bed scanners. You would place the page on the glass, making sure they are very straight, hold it down firmly at the book binding, and press the scan button on the computer software. The scanner would then take around 30 seconds to scan a page, and then the software will ask you to turn to the next page. The scanner used to be called Arkenstone and the software was Openbook. This means you take many days to scan a 300 page book, and by the end of it you are exhausted. At the end it would recognize the pages for some time, and the OCR results were reasonably good, provided the text was quality printing and no hand-writing. Obviously things must have improved by now? Of course accuracy of the OCR is also very important. I'm even thinking what if you could scan a computer screen, a bank card, and other non-book-page items? Have the phone cameras become effective for us to use via software that can detect if the whole page is in focus, to guide the blind person to move the book so that all the text is displayed and not cut off Etc, before scanning? That sounds like it will take too much shuffling around. May be the dedicated hardware for the blind works better for us? Sorry I'm thinking all over the page - I mean place, now! And I'm also going down memory lane, excuse me. We used to have a device called an Opticon, which is a camera that you place on a page, and connected to another device which represents the shape of the letter under your index finger of the other hand, using tiny pins that slightly lift and vibrate to shape the letters that you can feel. So, with one hand you slowly move the camera around the page, and with the other hand index finger inserted into the Opticon device, you feel the shape of the representation change under your finger as you move the camera. It was quite a nice device for its time. Ah well. I'm getting old! What to do! Any thoughts? Kind regards, Yamuna Jivana dasa -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Saravanan K Sent: Friday, December 8, 2023 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AI] how to handle mouse oriented events in NVDA & JAWS Dear Friends, I hope you all are fine. In most of the websites, they are giving importance to mouse oriented events & tasks. Because, it is easy to sited persons to use the mouse better than the keyboard. They will simply move the mouse then click or double click or drag & drop efficiently & easily. using mouse for scrolling also seems to be easier for them. Even slider movements also can be done easily with mouse. But, In our case all of these things seems to be tricky. We have to struggle for handling these operations. Is it possible to handle these operations in a easier manner using our screen readers. I want to know how to handle mouse oriented tasks or events using screen readers. Can some one guide me in these matter. -- ------- Regards Saravanan.K +919916512402 -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAAkZh%2Bsxt4XP3ADmHP7YR-2VfF_-d%3DEHc2Uz19w3hfE93x_jOg%40mail.gmail.com. -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/003d01da29b5%241c283f30%245478bd90%24%40gmail.com.
