Well, first of all the signs were outside. Every sign was a little bit different than the previous sign. Some were 6 feet tall and sitting right in front of me, others sitting at a 45° angle above some plants. Fortunately, I have some vision, so I was able to align the signs without using the vibration or any other feedback from the reader.
A funny note, I would read the signs and the reader would read them perfectly until it got kind it into the text and then it would start just reading gibberish. I couldn't figure it out, it did this on every sign. Finally my wife explained to me that the top of the sign was in English the bottom of the sign was in Spanish. :-) Chuck (mobile) Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores. > On Sep 28, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Gail the U. S. Male <gailcrowe1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > chuck, could you give more detail how you read the signs, were they close up? > 20 feet away? did you use the vibrations to tell you if the phone was level? > were these signs on a wall, or lying flat? enquiring minds want to know! > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Dean" <cadean...@gmail.com> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 5:10 PM > Subject: Re: KNFB reader rocks! > > > It amazes me how the App Store his turn so many reasonable people into > extremely miserly human beings. 15 years ago I spent over $1500 for OCR > programs and a flatbed scanner so I could read my mail. It worked about 60% > of the time, and I was very happy with that > > Today I went to the desert botanical gardens and walked around with my knfb > reader, reading signs and learning about the desert fauna and how the Native > American people survived in such incredible heat before air-conditioning. It > was amazing. Hundred dollars is a very small price to pay to have magic in my > hand. > > Chuck (mobile) > Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores. > >> On Sep 28, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Really Alan? Perfectly? Nothing works perfectly. Not even applications the >> cost several hundred dollars. Not when it comes to OCR. >> Mary >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Sep 28, 2014, at 2:26 PM, "Alan Paganelli" >>> <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net> wrote: >>> >>> If I paid 99 bucks for an app, it damn well had better work perfectly. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Alan >>> >>> Go Chicago Bears in 2014! >>> >>> Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now!!!!! >>> Move out. Get a job. Pay your bills wile you still know everything. >>> >>> Please click on: >>> HTTP://WWW.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ >>> There, you'll find free files of my arrangements and performances played on >>> the Yamaha Tyros 1 keyboard. The albums in Technics format formerly on my >>> website are still available upon request. Thanks for listening! >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicky Collins" <v-coll...@sbcglobal.net> >>> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 9:35 AM >>> Subject: Re: KNFB reader rocks! >>> >>> >>> I've had good luck reading things with this app, even on my 4S, >>> more luck than with any other app I have purchased, or with the >>> KNFB Reader on the Nokia N 82, for that matter. Oh, I'm not >>> claiming that it is perfect by any means; but, for my purposes of >>> sorting my mail and the like, I am able to get good enough >>> results to get the job done to my satisfaction. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Shirley" <listm...@eircom.net >>> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Date sent: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:01:39 +0100 >>> Subject: Re: KNFB reader rocks! >>> >>> Is it worth the money then? 99 dollars seems an awful lot of >>> money to pay >>> for an ap. >>> But if it works, I wouldnt mind paying. >>> Shirley >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Chuck Dean >>> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:19 PM >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: KNFB reader rocks! >>> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I am having lunch at my local sandwich shop. They have a menu >>> mounted on the >>> wall behind the cash register. >>> I took a picture of the menu... 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