Very relevant question. And another one, would of course be: As technology
moves on, and Optical Character Recognition gets better, what about the
EasyReader. Can the user - in some easy way - have the software of this unit
upgraded, or is it all hard-coded once for all? Will he have to send the unit
in for service, or can he - or some techie people around him - get the upgrade
done locally?
Yet another thing, that many scanner and OCR solutions are known to have
trouble with, is the contrasts. Likewise, the mix of picture and text. Also, if
the text on the page has been printed in the way, that you have part of it in
black on white, and some other part in white on black. Software like Omnipage
has come a far way to do a better job on that kind of stuff, but still often
fails to some extend. Same goes with columns, and tables. Quite curios to know,
how well the EasyReader does handle these things. Say for instance, you receive
the hydro-bill in the mail. You hold it up in front of the reader. How will it
come out, in the voiced version? Many times with a scanner and the PC, using
Omnipage, it gets mixed up. Many bills have two columns at the top, some text,
and a table-like layout in the middle, and some columns at the bottom. And
somehow, Omnipage gets mixed up, from all that differences. Would be
interesting to know, how well the new product handles this kind of things. And
please, no, I am not able to just go somewhere and try it out. Still curios,
since such things would have made the unit outstanding, in its own way. And,
here is another funny question that crossed my mind:
Will this unit be able to help the user read things like a display on other
equipment. A crazy example, but still, imagine you put your cell phone up front
of the unit. Will it be able to read out what is on the display? Or the display
of your microwave, DVD-player and the like? What for instance, if you want to
chekc the numbers on your gas-meter, to see how much gas your household did use
last month for heating. Will a unit like this be your companion in such cases.
Or are we still dreaming? Just wonder, since all of these, would really make
the unit of some interest for those of us, who are not equipped with some extra
eyes, in the everyday. Smile!
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Bahr
To: gw-info
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: GW Micro, Inc. Announces ReadEasy+!
two things.
1. stop bitching please. Those who are complaining clearly have too much time
to waste spewing negative energy into the world.
2. Can this read easy read a book? Or is it best for flat things like, say, a
menu? I tried an Eye Pal and it had a lot of trouble with record album covers I
was trying to scan. I realize that books are hard what with different fonts,
but it would be nice to go have someone get me a book and read it page by page.
But what of the curving scale and facing pages? We all have had that issue with
trying to lay a book flat on a scanner and miss the words.
Dave c. bahr
On 11/3/2011 9:18 PM, David Tanner wrote:
I haven't seen the Reading Easy, but I am betting two of them wouldn't
weigh as much as one Reading Edge.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: "Sandra Fouts" <[email protected]>; "'Robert C'"
<[email protected]>; "'Solomon Mekonnen'" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: GW Micro, Inc. Announces ReadEasy+!
The Reading Edge was a great product in its time. I still have one, but
I don't use it often because its recognition is slow. However, I like the
DecTalk voices, particularly Harry, and I like not having to be tied to a
computer. Many years ago, I tried using a PC and scanner with scanning
software and I didn't like it.
I'm hoping that today's technology has improved the scanners' ability to
recognize and read complex printed material. If the ReadEasy+ has a
good-sounding voice and it can recognize complex materials faster and if I
could read in braille as well as speech, then I'd definitely think of buying
one. Oh, yes! And if it's lighter than the Reading Edge and it can read a
columned document with the columns read in the proper order ...!
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