In 1990 Vocational Rehab and an associated State organization for unemployment purchased the Kurzweil personal reader for me. That purchase and the technology opened a door to employment for me. Since that experience, I would recommend anything developed by Kurzweil. It worked then and it works now.
Kevin Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 21, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Krister, > > I'm not a developer, so make no evaluation whatsoever of how much work they > had to do to add the tilt guidance, field of view, and the anti-skewing > stuff. I still think the price was too high, but as Kevin wrote on Friday, > it just works. I know some people put a lot of time into learning to use > Prizmo, and I understand that they got good results. I barely have enough > time to breathe each day. I get up in the morning and am busy till I go to > bed at night. I don't have that kind of time to spend practicing to use an > app. So yes, I do think the price is high, but I also know that it meets my > needs without requiring a ton of practice time. So I bought it, and I > recommend it to others. > > As to your question what if someone else built those same features into a > mainstream app, I think that'd be fabulous. But right now that hasn't > happened, so I'm going with the KNFB reader. > Cheers, > Donna >> On Sep 21, 2014, at 3:58 AM, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Well, Prizmo has some kind of guidance similar to the KNFB reader but it >> seems to be unreliable at times and i don't think it has the tilt sensor. >> What if that was built in? And another question on the same topic: The way >> we all, me included skeptical as i am, rave about the KNFB reader, how much >> do we really know about what the folks have done to make it this good? What >> if it was only the tilt sensor and the field view report and the rest was an >> ordinary OCR app? We make it sound like this app is the worlds 8th miracle, >> what if it ain't? What if some mainstream developer added at leas the >> guidance that Prizmo already has and a tilt sensor and it became just as >> good? >> Sorry for sounding skeptical, i'm just wondering about things. >> /Krister >> >>> 20 sep 2014 kl. 18:41 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Well, I can certainly agree that assistive isn't always equal to >>> overpriced, and indeed I have owned the flatbed and now own the camera >>> edition Sara, both of which have worked quite well, and with mainstream OCR >>> software and flatbed scanners, really quite excellently. Anything to lower >>> the cost of investment is always useful though. I am hoping to standardise >>> on something that is accurate and realistically caters to my needs, and >>> this app looks very promising going forward. However I do worry that the >>> cost would not be justified if I found another app. I have had all the >>> mentioned apps so far--TextDetective, TextGrabber, and Prizmo--and have not >>> even been able to choose among these three yet, though Prizmo is now the >>> one on my phone. Can anyone suggest ways in which any of these three apps >>> might somehow be improved to match the speed and accuracy of KNFB as it now >>> stands? A difficult question, I know, but I'm hoping someone knows >>> something I don't. This is mostly an exercise in discovery, of course, >>> since I now own all four of them. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
