Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Marianne Denning
for university and it was quite good. Husna -Original Message- From: RobH. Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hummmnmnm, the logic of it threw me too, so are we to understand the app can't

Re: knfb reader doing something very strange on my windows computer

2014-09-23 Thread Marianne Denning
I am opening them just fine but I am not using Outlook. I will try Outlook and see what happens. On 9/23/14, Paul and Paula Jordan pau...@roadrunner.com wrote: Hi, all. I get my ViPhone email on my PC running windows 7. I'm now noticing that the thread that has to do with KNFB reader first

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Kerri
I have probably a ridiculous question here. Is KNFB usable in Canada since it's put out by the NFB? I admit it, I'm most likely lunatic. On Sep 23, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote: Yes. You can verify this by going to its page on the App Store. Every app's page

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread John Panarese
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Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Flor Lynch
It's usable worldwide, and is available in many countries' App Stores. It also supports several languages. - Original Message - From: Kerri To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:45 PM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions I have

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:32 AM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Yes, that is what the K and K NFB reader stands for Chuck (mobile) Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores. On Sep 22, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Husna Begum h.begu...@btinternet.com wrote: hi, has knfb reader

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
. - Original Message - From: Marianne Denning maria...@denningweb.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:51 AM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Ray Kurzweil has not been involved in the Kurzweil company for many years and I don't believe Kurzweil

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.
Of Gail the U. S. Male Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:03 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions yes, it was totally amazing! at the time, Ray envisioned something about the size of a briefcase. Ray has been a wonderful friend to the blind, and will continue

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Gail the U. S. Male
: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:46 PM Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions I understand he is a Senior employee at Google. I hope he can swing Google towards as good a commitment to accessibility for the blind and visually impaired as Steve Jobs did with Apple. -Original Message- From

RE: knfb reader doing something very strange on my windows computer

2014-09-23 Thread Pinky
I had the same problem with that crashing my Outlook 2010. Every email I opened with that subject line crashed it. Ed From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul and Paula Jordan Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 2:52 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Karl Smith
://twitter.com/axistech My blog http://www.samobile.net/users/oksaxis/blog/ -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Marianne Denning Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:51 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First

RE: Knfb Reader will not be moved

2014-09-23 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Because it's probably in the last row of apps above the dock and iOS 8 has a bug where you can't move certain apps out of there. It is totally inconsistent because I can move some apps and others I can't. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com]

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kerri Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 2:46 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions I have probably a ridiculous question here. Is KNFB usable in Canada since it's put out by the NFB? I admit it, I'm most likely lunatic

RE: knfb reader doing something very strange on my windows computer

2014-09-23 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Same has been happening here with Outlook 2013 From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pinky Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 5:32 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: knfb reader doing something very strange on my windows computer I had

Re: knfb reader doing something very strange on my windows computer

2014-09-23 Thread Marianne Denning
: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 5:32 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: knfb reader doing something very strange on my windows computer I had the same problem with that crashing my Outlook 2010. Every email I opened with that subject line crashed it. Ed From: viphone

RE: knfb reader doing something very strange on my windows computer

2014-09-23 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Marianne Denning Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:46 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: knfb reader doing something very strange on my windows computer I have the same issue in Outlook but can open

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-23 Thread Kerri
: It's usable worldwide, and is available in many countries' App Stores. It also supports several languages. - Original Message - From: Kerri To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:45 PM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions I have probably

Re: KNFB reader support

2014-09-22 Thread Richard Turner
I hope you sent that to KNFB support. They won't see your note on this list. Richard Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. - Victor Hugo Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2014, at 8:15 PM, John Diakogeorgiou jdiakoge2...@gmail.com wrote: I wish knfb and iPhone

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Karl Smith
: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:38 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hi Rob, I think, in a blindness specific app, if the volume control took pictures, there would

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Sandy Finley
Try searching for KNFB only and see how many results you find. Worked for me. HTH From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Morales Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 10:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

Re: KNFB Reader crashing on iPhone6

2014-09-22 Thread Alex Hall
I don't have the app, but sometimes a new app will crash upon being opened. Normally, simply turning your phone completely off (by holding the lock button, then double tapping the slide to power off button) and then back on is enough to fix this problem. Give that a try and see if the crashing

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Kimberly Carmichael
I just tried to share K in F be reader with someone on my family share plan. I went to my purchases, and went under my name and then downloaded it to that person's device. It's been said that this app is no longer shared with you and you must purchase it from the app store.I would have gone to

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Christopher huby
This app sounds very good however why would like to noise does it use the Internet to translate what it has taken a photograph of and if so is there a way you can do it off-line On 18 Sep 2014, at 9:37 pm, Chuck Dean cadean...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a link to the cayenne FB reader apps page

RE: [Bulk] RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Don Risavy, Jr.
Just type knfb and not with the reader added and should find it as I did; but, hadn't bought it yet. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Morales Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: [Bulk] RE: KNFB Reader

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
: KNFB Reader, First Impressions This app sounds very good however why would like to noise does it use the Internet to translate what it has taken a photograph of and if so is there a way you can do it off-line On 18 Sep 2014, at 9:37 pm, Chuck Dean cadean...@gmail.com mailto:cadean

RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-22 Thread Don Risavy, Jr.
Where can it be gotten or downloaded from? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew J. LaPointe Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 9:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? Hi, I

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Christopher huby
sounds a wonderful item bought very expensive just checked £69 good grief will have to save up for it for a while On 18 Sep 2014, at 9:05 am, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote: I've spent the last half hour or so playing with KNFB Reader on my iPhone 5s. I couldn't be more impressed. I

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread martin wilsher
it works really well on the iphone 5c. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Vece Sent: 18 September 2014 13:24 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Eileen; I believe I'm going to try

RE: KNFB Reader crashing on iPhone6

2014-09-22 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader crashing on iPhone6 I don't have the app, but sometimes a new app will crash upon being opened. Normally, simply turning your phone completely off (by holding the lock button, then double tapping the slide to power off button) and then back on is enough to fix

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Oriol Gómez
One would have to try. But here's hoping On 9/18/14, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: would it be possible to read a screen with minues on it successfully? On 9/18/2014 1:05 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: I've spent the last half hour or so playing with KNFB

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Oriol Gómez
@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:15 pm Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions would it be possible to read a screen with minues on it successfully? On 9/18/2014 1:05 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: I've spent the last half hour or so playing with KNFB Reader on my iPhone 5s

RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-22 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Where you get all apps from, the App Store. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Don Risavy, Jr. Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 7:59 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? Where can

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Chuck Dean
- From: Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:15 pm Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions would it be possible to read a screen with minues on it successfully? On 9/18/2014 1:05 AM

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Marianne Denning
No, it does not use the internet to read documents. I looked in the FAQ area on their website and it says the KNFB reader can be used on an airplane when the phone is in airplane mode. On 9/20/14, Christopher huby chrishub...@gmail.com wrote: This app sounds very good however why would like to

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Gmail
He mentioned translation, which made me think that he wanted to translate from one language to another. If so, I don't think it can do this yet. Thanks, Ari On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Marianne Denning maria...@denningweb.com wrote: No, it does not use the internet to read documents.

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Christopher huby
clue searching this app in the app store? From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ron Pelletier Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:13 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Sieghard, I found exactly what you did

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-22 Thread Louise Redsull
with the fingers of each hand at either side has helped but does take some getting used too. Louise. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Oriol Gómez Sent: 18 September 2014 09:34 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader

RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-22 Thread Pablo Morales
I can't find it. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 1:31 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? Where you get all apps from, the App

Re: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-22 Thread Donna
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 1:31 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? Where you get all apps from, the App Store. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone

RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-22 Thread Lynda Ingraham
Are you typing knfb reader as two words? Lynda -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Morales Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 7:34 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? I can't

Re: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-22 Thread Chuck Dean
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 1:31 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [Bulk] Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? Where you get all apps from, the App Store. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone

Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-22 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
It's important to note the differences between something not being supported VS not working. So, this means that while the KNFB Reader app will work on a 4s, it's not supported, meaning that if you write for help because it's too slow, you will be told to get a newer phone. -- Raul A.

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread RobH.
Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions At one point on the AppleVis podcast, the demonstrator mentioned that it was important to first touch the screen with a finger to bring focus there, then to do a double tap. I don’t know if this is related to what you’re talking about, but it may

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of RobH. Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:33 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions I just read this and had this image, begging a question:- Holding your phone in this unnatural

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread Pablo Morales
Pelletier Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:13 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Sieghard, I found exactly what you did. The company did not let us down. Its really worth its money. It sounded a bit expensive at the beginning but, when you see

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread Chuck Dean
@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Sieghard, I found exactly what you did. The company did not let us down. Its really worth its money. It sounded a bit expensive at the beginning but, when you see what it does, its worth every penny. I’m about to delete all

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread Terrie Terlau
shows up if you don't double tap Search. HTH. Terrie From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Morales Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 10:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Ok guys, but I am searching

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread Jonathan Mosen
to take photos while fiddling on the screen and tapping. JMO, RobH. - Original Message - From: Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. kramlinger.ke...@mayo.edu To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 11:28 PM Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions At one point

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread Chuck Dean
- From: Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. kramlinger.ke...@mayo.edu To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 11:28 PM Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions At one point on the AppleVis podcast, the demonstrator mentioned that it was important to first touch

RE: KNFB reader support

2014-09-21 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Wouldn’t it be awesome if they could add Eloquence, in fact, I always thought how great would it be if Eloquence could be the default voice on the iPhone, but I guess that will never happen. I just hope it will stick around in Jaws for a long time to come. From: viphone@googlegroups.com

Re: KNFB reader support

2014-09-21 Thread Mary Otten
Well, clearly speech preferences are individual. I would not like it at all if eloquence where the default voice on the iPhone. But if it were added as an extra, I wouldn't care, because I could avoid it. What we really need is the ability to have voices on the system, and have any app use

Re: KNFB reader support

2014-09-21 Thread Mikayla Gephart
What is their list Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2014, at 2:18 PM, Richard Turner rich...@turner42.com wrote: KNFB reader support is definitely listening to feedback. I've gotten two nice responses to my messages to their list and to support directly. One was about the exporting issue

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread Ben Blatchford
good trying to take photos while fiddling on the screen and tapping. JMO, RobH. - Original Message - From: Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. kramlinger.ke...@mayo.edu To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 11:28 PM Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-21 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Blatchford Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 12:28 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions hi, Has anyone gotten the automatic mode to work? When I select the profile, all I get is a little whooshing sound every couple of seconds. The only way I can get it to take

Re: KNFB reader support

2014-09-21 Thread John Diakogeorgiou
I wish knfb and iPhone would include the lequento susan which Is available on android. On 9/21/14, Mikayla Gephart mikgeph...@icloud.com wrote: What is their list Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2014, at 2:18 PM, Richard Turner rich...@turner42.com wrote: KNFB reader support is definitely

RE: knfb reader: 5s OR 6?

2014-09-20 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Larry, I doubt a lot of 5S users will be buying the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus so most of the people who will have a 6 or 6 Plus as of today or within the near future will probably come from a 4S or maybe a 5. Anyhow, I really wouldn't worry about KNFB Reader working a lot better on a 6 or 6 Plus. The

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Charles Rivard
- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:35 AM Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hi Charles, Yes, you can find answers to many questions asked here by searching Google or the archives. However, in this case

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread David
I don't think, these are first impressions any more! Dave. - Original Message - From: Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 4:46 AM Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hi, I shot a picture of my computer

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread David Chittenden
Of Eileen Misrahi Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hello Jonathan, Your first impressions of the KNFB app is encouraging. At this time, I'm going to have to be on the sidelines until I decide on which

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Rebecca Ilniski
I also am impressed with the Knfb reader. I listened to Michael Hanson's podcast on the applevis web site. I find the tilt and the field of view report helpful. Before listening to the podcast I was able to scan and find something on a worksheet at work that I was brailleing. Last night I read

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Alex Hall
size, it is still an 8 MP camera and much the same as on a 5S. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eileen Misrahi Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hello

Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-20 Thread Andrew J. LaPointe
Hi, I downloaded the KFNB Reader and love it with my 4s. It's getting used to but, much better than any other app I used. Andy and Shubert. -Original Message- From: Ron Pelletier Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:27 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: knfb reader

Re: KNFB Reader on iPod Touch Fifth Gen, was: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-20 Thread Russ Kiehne
] On Behalf Of Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 12:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? will it work on a ipod touch 5th gen? Hank On 9/18/2014 11:18 PM, Chuck Dean wrote: The cayenne FB reader will work on an iPhone for ass

RE: KNFB Reader on iPod Touch Fifth Gen, was: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-20 Thread Richard Turner
Subject: RE: KNFB Reader on iPod Touch Fifth Gen, was: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? Hi Teresa, I haven’t tried Prizmo, Text Grabber and KNFB Reader all on the iPod /Touch. I just put KNFB Reader on it because Hank asked and I happen to have my wife’s iPod here. Besides, I was curious myself

Re: KNFB Reader on iPod Touch Fifth Gen, was: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-20 Thread susan
12:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? will it work on a ipod touch 5th gen? Hank On 9/18/2014 11:18 PM, Chuck Dean wrote: The cayenne FB reader will work on an iPhone for ass. I have an iPhone 4s and I loaded the KNFB reader on it this morning. It works fine

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Andy Baracco
, September 20, 2014 5:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Actually, both the 6 and the 6+ have features which will help a fair amount for any OCR app. Both new iPhones have special pixels which set the pixels in the area for the lighting/contrast

Re: KNFB Reader--No Text

2014-09-20 Thread Feliciano G
Are you trying to update VIA Wifi on the device or plugged into the computer? Maybe it's a internet connection issue. Regards, Feliciano www.twitter.com/theblindman12v -Original Message- From: Lynda Ingraham Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 10:21 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Jonathan Mosen
: viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eileen Misrahi Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Lynn White
as on a 5S. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eileen Misrahi Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hello Jonathan, Your first impressions of the KNFB app

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread leliastr...@gmail.com
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eileen Misrahi Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hello Jonathan, Your first impressions of the KNFB app is encouraging. At this time, I'm going to have to be on the sidelines until I

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Chuck Dean
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hello Jonathan, Your first impressions of the KNFB app is encouraging. At this time, I'm going to have to be on the sidelines until I decide on which iPhone 6 I

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread BrianMiller
] On Behalf Of Lynn White Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 3:26 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2014, at 1:59 PM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote: This is exactly why I have opted for the 6 Plus. My understanding

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
an outstanding job. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of leliastr...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:36 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions There is no trial for the KMF

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions I just purchased the KNFB reader app this morning and have experimented a little bit with it… I scanned some food packages and some loose pages and a number of pages of a book, and I think there is a lot of potential with this app, but a few things

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread BrianMiller
, September 20, 2014 4:18 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hi Brian, First of all, in my opinion KNFB Reader is not designed to read a 300 page book by doing free-hand scans of each page or even double page. If you are indeed scanning entire bvooks I

RE: knfb reader: 5s OR 6?

2014-09-20 Thread Pablo Morales
I think, the camera stabilization, is something that should not affect so much, when you take a picture of a document, using your voice, or using a Bluetooth keyboard. So using a 5s without this feature, or using a iPhone 6, should not be a huge difference, more than the size of the device.

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Chuck Dean
To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hi Brian, First of all, in my opinion KNFB Reader is not designed to read a 300 page book by doing free-hand scans of each page or even double page. If you are indeed scanning entire bvooks I think a flatbed scanner

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of BrianMiller Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:01 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Thanks Sieghard… I use the two-finger double-tap all the time in other contexts, though… It’s like there are two layers

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-20 Thread leliastr...@gmail.com
double-tap. Is there a setting I need to toggle to make this work? Thanks, Brian M From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 4:18 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First

Re: knfb reader: 5s OR 6?

2014-09-20 Thread David Chittenden
Back in 2007, I worked with a company that was trying to develop a portable OCR system for the blind. We found that sighted people are able to keep the digital camera image extremely stable. Blind people, on the other hand, are unable to do this because we cannot see when the image moves and

Re: KNFB reader and field view reports.

2014-09-20 Thread Alex Hall
Say you get a report that the top and right edges are in view, and that you are rotated twenty degrees clockwise. That means that you'd first rotate your phone left a bit, to counter that twenty-degree angle, then pull it a bit left and down to try to get the two edges it didn't mention in the

RE: KNFB reader and field view reports.

2014-09-20 Thread Lynda Ingraham
Hi Annie, The field report gives you feedback on how well you have the camera positioned over the item you are trying to read. You are correct. Ideally, a field report will tell you that you have all of the edges in the picture. With that said, it is not absolutely necessary to have all the

RE: knfb reader: 5s OR 6?

2014-09-20 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
conjecture on my part since I have not done any studies. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 3:32 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: knfb reader: 5s OR 6? Back

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Jonathan, What is the app called in the app store? I searched for KNFB and didn't find anything. Perhaps its not in the Canadian app store yet. I, for sure am getting it when I can find it Ron Danvers From: viphone

RE: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-19 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Reader on a Nokia years ago. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brent Harding Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:41 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s? The 4S also doesn't

Re: knfb reader on Iphone 4s?

2014-09-19 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
will it work on a ipod touch 5th gen? Hank On 9/18/2014 11:18 PM, Chuck Dean wrote: The cayenne FB reader will work on an iPhone for ass. I have an iPhone 4s and I loaded the KNFB reader on it this morning. It works fine! The differences is the processor is much slower. You do not get

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread RobH.
@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:02 PM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Ar, good to know KNFB Reader works on the 4s or be it slower. My impression was they wasn't going to support the 4s for the time being, at least officially. So this is reassuring news that it does

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread RobH.
if they recommend a viewing distence for this? Those scanning boxes have their uses then, though not a portable solution. Rh. - Original Message - From: Kayaker sea...@me.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:48 PM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Hi, I'm

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread RobH.
Hummmnmnmnm,careful!... you'll be convincing a sceptic soon at this rate. Rh. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 6:56 AM Subject: RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions I purchased KNFB

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread RobH.
@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:43 PM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Okay, I've tried out the app and here are my impressions. First, I am running on an iPhone 5S using the latest version of IOS7. In addition to using the field report option, there is an option next

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I agree, and i’m surpriced actually that reading displays and the like has gotten so little attention, i mean now that we actually have a device capable of doing just that, i’m surpriced that there’s only a couple apps that can read lcd displays and the like. As it stands now, Talking Goggles

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread RobH.
Does it keep or discard the pictures? this could soon gobble up storage. Rh. - Original Message - From: Chuck Dean cadean...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:58 PM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Whenever you change the screen

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Chuck Dean
storage. Rh. - Original Message - From: Chuck Dean cadean...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:58 PM Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Whenever you change the screen, you would have to take a Nother picture of it to read

Re: KNFB Reader Help?

2014-09-19 Thread Richard Turner
One technique that might help you is to put the phone flat on the page you want to scan with the back facing camera in the center of the page. Then grasp the phone with your thumbs and little fingers on the four corners of the phone and raise the phone up trying to keep it flat and the camera

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Rose Combs
@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of christopher hallsworth Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 11:03 AM To: Viphone Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Ar, good to know KNFB Reader works on the 4s or be it slower. My impression was they wasn't going to support

RE: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Rose Combs
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les Kriegler Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 11:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Okay, I've tried out the app and here are my impressions. First, I am running on an iPhone 5S using the latest version of IOS7. In addition to using

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Anouk Radix
years well worth it, maybe I will go get it and try on my 4S. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les Kriegler Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 11:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Okay, I've

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Gmail
, 2014 11:03 AM To: Viphone Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Ar, good to know KNFB Reader works on the 4s or be it slower. My impression was they wasn't going to support the 4s for the time being, at least officially. So this is reassuring news that it does in fact work. On 18 Sep

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Chuck Dean
at this time for the most part. No helping eyes here any longer. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of christopher hallsworth Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 11:03 AM To: Viphone Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions

2014-09-19 Thread Chuck Dean
Subject: Re: KNFB Reader, First Impressions Ar, good to know KNFB Reader works on the 4s or be it slower. My impression was they wasn't going to support the 4s for the time being, at least officially. So this is reassuring news that it does in fact work. On 18 Sep 2014, at 18:23, Chuck Dean

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